Do You Have Celiac Disease?

The world seems to the diagnosis of celiac disease. Despite its relatively easy diagnosis, including blood tests and biopsy of gastro-scope, it is often overlooked. Doctors often mistakenly believe that this is a rare disease, although current statistics show that at 1% of the population (this is for U.S. and UK, seems to be little other data available and elsewhere). This number is expected to be even greater among the many undiagnosed patients. It can also be a hereditary disease, and can run in families. It is also common in people who already have other autoimmune diseases, such as hypothyroidism, rheumatoid arthritis, Addison's Disease and Type 1 Diabetes.

Another reason to be overlooked that there are so many disorders overlap with common symptoms. There are people who have symptoms of digestive disorders, usually diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), pain and fatigue, diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, a pain in the joints, diagnosed with arthritis, but they may have celiac disease.

There are also people who have no symptoms other than anemia. People seem to usually be treated with arthritis or osteoporosis or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), or anemia and treated for the disease without finding the cause of the problem.

There is even a controversial idea, because it is a disease without cure that requires medication, there is no support or funding from the pharmaceutical industry to support its testing. only treatment for Celiac is a gluten free diet to follow, and when it is done all the symptoms clear up. While the pharmaceutical industry would much prefer to push for anti-depressants, anti-inflammatories, painkillers and other drugs used to treat the symptoms of celiac disease.

In any case, whatever the reason, we can no longer defend ignorance on the topic, doctors, especially those in primary care, should begin to send patients for tests and we have to educate the general population about it and how it is treated . It is not only a rare disorder, it is more common than people realize. more our diet to begin to rely so heavily on white flour, highly processed, highly refined, convenience foods, more diagnosis will occur.

Celiac disease is an allergy to gluten, like wheat allergies. This is actually an autoimmune disease that the body mistakenly attacks its own tissue, seeing them as a foreign body.

When people with celiac disease eats any food containing gluten, the body reacts to those proteins found in gluten and attack small finger like projections in the small intestine called villi, preventing absorption of nutrients.

Tests for Celiac Disease include two blood tests for anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies (tTGA) and anti-endomysium antibodies (EMA). These are the markers for which antibodies are produced in response to gluten in the body with celiac disease. If these tests are positive, then you will have to undergo gastroscopy, in which the small tube is inserted down the mouth (you are asleep and unaware of what is happening) and biopsy of small bowel mucosa to examine whether there is damage to the villi. Even if blood tests are negative, a biopsy can still come back positive.

gluten free diet then you will be kept for life. It is dangerous to continue eating gluten, not only because the disease has, but also because it is not treated, it can lead to colon cancer alone.

It is therefore important that our primary care physicians more often to check for celiac disease.