CELIEC DISEASE

Introduction: Celiac disease is a disorder of the digestive system that damages the small intestine and prevents absorption of nutrients from food. Celiac disease or gluten sensitivity is an inflammatory autoimmune disease is of the opinion that damage to the small finger-like projections that the small intestine.
When people with celiac disease to eat foods containing gluten - the protein in wheat and other cereals May ignite the autoimmune reaction, which in turn reduced and eventually compresses the villi. The villi cause malnutrition unhealthy for the patient, regardless of the quantity of food eaten. Non-compliance with celiac desease may end up in serious ongoing conditions such as cancer, osteoporosis, anemia, and seizures and may also contact us directly threaten life.


Celiac types of diseases: There are several species of this disease: autoimmune disease, digestive desease, chronic digestive system disease, inflammatory bowel disease, diagnosed in conditions and intestinal conditions.

Causes: Although the outlines of inheritance is complex, celiac disease may run in families and is said to be the genetic basis. The mode of inheritance follows structure that is known to combine these diseases as a multi-factorial and according to the researchers, several factors cause the disease. The patient is given with the genetic predisposition, to promote the environment, their immune system acts as a result of the occurrence of the disease is always active for the first time.

Symptoms: The symptoms may or may not exhibit in the digestive system and some patients with the desease may not be symptoms. However, common symptoms are: anemia, weight fluctuation, persistent diarrhea and constipation, failure to thrive in infants or late growth, general fatigue, neuropathy symptoms such as burning - Tingling - Numbness in hands and feet, loss of feeling in hands and feet, numbness or reduced feeling in the face and body, oily foul-smelling stools, diseases of the stomach, cramps, gas, distention, bloating and vomiting.

Diagnosis: The disease can not be tracked, as sometimes there are several ways to look. The symptoms are similar to many other conditions such as colitis irritating bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease, colitis, diverticulosis, intestinal infections, persistent fatigue and depression. Often the condition remains undiagnosed for longer period and the patient accepts this general feeling of illness as normal with the result that to know himself and to delays in the treatment of the disease.

Treatment: Gluten-free diet is the only treatment for this desease, and nutrition needs for the rest of life.