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Celiac disease is an autoimmune illness of the small intestine. It affects the digestive system when food containing gluten is ingested. Gluten is found in foods like barley, rye and wheat. For someone with celiac, the body’s immune response to gluten causes inflammation in the small intestine, damaging the lining. This reduces the intestine’s ability to absorb dietary nutrients. Symptoms caused by nutritional, vitamin, and mineral deficiencies can occur. A person suffering from celiac disease can become malnourished regardless of how much food is consumed.
Celiac disease is also known as sprue, nontropical sprue, gluten enteropathy, and adult celiac disease.
Celiac disease occurs in populations around the world, but it is more common amongst European and Scandinavian nations, particularly Ireland, Italy, Austria, Sweden, and Finland. One in three hundred people in Northern Ireland have it. In Finland one in one hundred are affected. In North America the rate is lower, at about one in three thousand. But, a recent study found that the United States has a rate of occurrence similar to that in Europe. The drawback to these studies is that people with celiac disease often go undiagnosed due to a lack of symptoms, or the symptoms occur later in life. Occurrence rates could actually be higher.
The typical symptoms of celiac disease may vary from person to person. Though the disease attacks or affects the digestive system or the small intestine, the symptoms may occur in any other part of the body. Celiac disease affects adults, children and even infants. In the case of infants and young children celiac disease affects the digestive system only.
Your body relies on three different types of nutrients: carbohydrates, protein, and fat. These nutrients are absorbed by the body through the intestines. When the intestines are not able to absorb as many nutrients as the body needs it is called malabsorption. Celiac disease causes malabsorption. Fat is usually the most affected by celiac disease. Your body gets rid of the fat it is not able to absorb. Fat malabsorption causes symptoms like diarrhea, foul smelling flatulence, abdominal bloating, and fat in the stool (steatorrhea).
The general symptoms of celiac disease in children and infants are:
If a child demonstrates some of these symptoms they may have celiac disease. Children with celiac disease may suffer from delayed growth resulting from malnutrition, delayed puberty, and dental problems.
In adults the symptoms of celiac disease may not start in the digestive system. Some of the symptoms observed in adults are:
Symptoms due to malnutrition and vitamin or mineral deficiencies include:
There have been cases where the patient showed none of the symptoms of celiac disease but suffered from it for a long time. If left untreated celiac disease may eventually lead to severe liver diseases or intestinal cancer. Sometimes people suffering from celiac disease have no gastrointestinal symptoms at all. Statistics say out of one hundred patients with celiac disease just a little over ten percent shows the classical obvious symptoms of malnutrition such as diarrhea, weight loss, and various other nutritional deficiencies. Some patients suffering from celiac disease do not show any regular symptoms of the disease and thus do not get properly treated. Celiac disease is often misdiagnosed, delaying treatment.
Our job at Patients Medical is to listen, to connect the dots between a patient's medical history, symptoms, and their underlying causes. Patients Medical is a superb place for women and men to secure integrative and holistic health care from providers who give personalized care, partner with the patient to focus on the root cause of their illness, support their recovery, and help them maintain good health.
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