Celiac disease

Celiac disease is a condition that impairs your body’s ability to break down certain foods. people that have the disease get sick if they eat bread, pasta, pizza, and cereal. These meals and others include a protein known as “gluten.” Gluten damages the intestines of people with celiac disease .  As a result, their bodies can’t absorb nutrients from food. The disease affects children and adults.

Some people with celiac disease has no symptoms. When symptoms do occur, they will include:

• Pain in the belly
• Diarrhoea
• Bowel movements that are oily and float
• Weight loss
• Feeling bloated, or too full all the time
• Low appetite
• Bad gas
• Itchy skin rashes
• Invisible symptoms, like weak bones or low iron levels
• Slow growth in children

Your child should see the doctor if he or she:

• Has diarrhea that lasts for weeks
• Has constipation that will not go away
• Has brown or yellow teeth with pits or grooves in them
• Is too small or light for his or her age
• Is close to becoming a teenager but does not seem to be going through the changes that teenagers go through (doctors call this “delayed puberty”)
• Has other members of the family with the disease

Doctors use more than one test to diagnose celiac disease:

• Blood test – Blood test – A blood test appears for proteins that a few people make after eating gluten. people who have celiac disease have plenty of those proteins, known as antibodies. be on ideally air a gluten-containing diet for several weeks before getting the blood test. If you are on a gluten-free diet, your doctor might do other blood tests to determine if you are genetically likely to have celiac disease.
• Biopsy – to do a biopsy, the doctor will put a thin tube with a little camera down your throat. When the tube is in your bowel, he or she will take a small sample of tissue. That way he or she will look at the tissue under a microscope and see if eating gluten has damaged the intestine.

The best treatment is to stop eating gluten completely. This might be difficult to do initially. You may need to avoid rye, wheat, barley, and possibly oats. These ingredients appear in many common foods, including:

• Bread, pasta, pastries, and cereal
• Many sauces, spreads, and condiments
• Beers, ales, lagers, and malt vinegars

You should also avoid milk, cheese, and other dairy foods initially. These foods may be hard to break down. you will want to wait to eat these foods until after your intestines have an opportunity to heal.

Foods that do not contain gluten (and are fine to eat) include:

• Rice, corn, potatoes, buckwheat, and soybeans
• Fruits and vegetables
• Flours, pasta, and other products made of these ingredients that have a label on them that says “gluten free”
• Wine and distilled alcoholic drinks, like rum, tequila, vodka, and whiskey

Your doctor may also prescribe vitamins to make up for nutrients that you simply have not been getting from food.

People usually feel plenty better within 2 weeks of starting a gluten-free diet. Still, the majority need to make huge changes in their lives to avoid gluten.

A health expert can help you find out how to change your eating habits and still be healthy. you will also have to find out how to read and understand labels on foods.

You will probably have to avoid gluten for the rest of your life. Your doctor will possibly suggest getting a biopsy at least once a year. this can be to work out how your body is responding to a gluten-free diet.

The hardest part about the disease is learning to eat in an entire new way. the good news is, there are lots of foods made only for people with celiac disease. The new diet simply takes a bit getting used to.