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Celiac disease: a digestive disease, which damages the small intestine and also interferes
with absorption of nutrients from food. People suffering from celiac disease cannot
accept gluten, which is a protein in wheat, rye, and barley, found mainly in foods and also
some everyday products such as medicines, vitamins, and lip balms.
In Celiac Disease, when people eat foods or even use products containing gluten, the
immune system take action by damaging or destroying Villi which is the tiny, fingerlike
protrusions kind of lining the small intestine. Villi’s main function is to allow nutrients
from food to be absorbed through the walls of the small intestine and then into the
bloodstream. And if such villi are damaged or destroyed then a person becomes
malnourished, even though he is eating a proper balanced diet and no matter how much
quantity of food one eats as vitamins, calcium, protein, carbohydrates, fats and other
important nutrients are not absorbed.
Celiac disease:
Celiac disease’s symptoms vary from person to person and also these symptoms can
occur in digestive system or in some other part of the body. Though digestive symptoms
are common in infants and young children suffering from Celiac disease.
Other Symptoms:
• Irritability
• Mal-absorption of nutrients
Celiac disease during the years when child is growing has bad repercussions on the well
being and growth of the child. When nutrition is critical to a child’s normal growth,
celiac disease can cause and irreversible damage to growth of child like
Celiac disease symptoms in adults, have less digestive symptoms and instead have one or
more of the following symptoms:
• Malnutrition
• Anemia
• Osteoporosis
• Miscarriage
• Liver diseases
• Cancers of the intestine.
Blood Tests: test blood for high levels of anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies (tTGA)
or anti-endomysium antibodies (EMA).
Intestinal Biopsy: a biopsy of the small intestine, to check damage to villi
Dermatitis Herpetiformis: Dermatitis herpetiformis is an intensely itchy, blistering skin
rash, affects 15 to 25 percent of people with celiac disease, occurring on the
elbows, knees, and buttocks and mostly they don’t show digestive symptoms of
celiac disease. Dermatitis Herpetiformis diagnosed through blood test and skin
biopsy.
Screening: In the absence of symptoms yet the doubt persist of having the celiac disease
then screening is done that is testing for the presence of autoantibodies in the
blood.
Celiac Disease can be cured with gluten free diet which is for lifetime, symptoms can
reoccur if gluten is eaten.