Question by lostbrokendestroyed: What is celiac disease? and symptoms?
what is celiac disease? what are the symptoms? Are you born with it? how do you find out if you have it? ect.
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Answer by Bethany
Yes celiac disease is a disorder that you are born with or you retain from stomach problems as you grow older. Its basically a severe Allergy to gluten, wheat and corn related products. Go for some tests, ask your doc about celiac, if you have severe stomach problems, fatigue, drowsiness from eating everyday foods, you will likely have it.
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To see if you have celiac for sure, you need to talk to your doctor. They will take a blood test and maybe do a scope. You are born with it and you will have it all your life ( if you do have it) but it is easy to treat. You just have to stop consuming all forms of gluten.
Go to this link, this website has lots of info.
http://www.celiac.org/cd-symptoms.php
karwi,
Celiac disease is a digestive disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with absorption of nutrients from food. People who have celiac disease cannot tolerate gluten, a protein in wheat, rye, and barley. Gluten is found mainly in foods but may also be found in everyday products such as medicines, vitamins, and lip balms. When people with celiac disease eat foods or use products containing gluten, their immune system responds by damaging or destroying villi—the tiny, fingerlike protrusions lining the small intestine. Villi normally allow nutrients from food to be absorbed through the walls of the small intestine into the bloodstream. Without healthy villi, a person becomes malnourished, no matter how much food one eats. Celiac disease is both a disease of malabsorption—meaning nutrients are not absorbed properly—and an abnormal immune reaction to gluten. Celiac disease is also known as celiac sprue, nontropical sprue, and gluten-sensitive enteropathy. Celiac disease is genetic, meaning it runs in families. Sometimes the disease is triggered—or becomes active for the first time—after surgery, pregnancy, childbirth, viral infection, or severe emotional stress. Symptoms of celiac disease vary from person to person. Symptoms may occur in the digestive system or in other parts of the body. Digestive symptoms are more common in infants and young children and may include abdominal bloating and pain – chronic diarrhea – vomiting – constipation – pale, foul-smelling, or fatty stool – weight loss.
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http://www.celiaccentral.org/
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matador 89
Celiac Disease is a is the autoimmune reaction the body has when consuming gluten. There are a variety of symptoms including but no limited to (some celiacs may not have symptoms) diarrhea, constipation, rash, bloating, anemia etc.
Yes you are born with it – it is pasted on through genetics. Their is a blood test the doctor can do but note someone could be gluten intolerant and not have celiac disease.
Celiac is an genetic based autoimmune disease (NOT an allergy, which is a histamine reaction) . Celiac is carried on the same gene as diabetes, interestingly enough.
When a person with celiac disease consumes gluten (the sticky protein found in wheat, barley, rye, spelt, etc) it triggers an autoimmune reaction that will eventually destroy the villi (fingerlike structures) in the small intestine. Without villi people are unable to produce some of the enzymes needed to digest food (e.g. lactase) or even absorb nutrients and calories from food.
The symptoms of celiac vary from person to person, some people have classic symptoms of malabsorption, other people have no symptoms at all and are not diagnosed until very late in life. Children and babies usually present as small for their age, may have classic malnourishment symptoms (large bellies, skinny arms and legs, poor hair growth, small stature, gluten ataxia), diarrhea, etc.
Celiac seems to need to be triggered, there is debate as to what triggers it. Some people trigger with their first ingestion of gluten, others do not develop it until later in life. Personally, the doctors feel that pregnancy triggered my celiac.
There are several tests for celiac. The most common is the blood screening tests. Go here:
http://www.uchospitals.edu/pdf/uch_007935.pdf
There are also genetic tests and stool testing available.
These tests are usually followed by an endoscopy to verify the results of the first tests. False negatives are possible. If a person does not make antibodies to gluten (Igg/IgA def.) or the person has been on a gluten free diet for a length of time, then they will test negative when in reality they do have celiac disease.
There is no cure for celiac, the only treatment is to follow a gluten free diet for life. Go here for more information on celiac:
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/celiac/index.htm