| Gluten, a protein present in bread, pasta, cookies, | | | | them. |
| crust and other food that is made out of wheat, | | | | But there are some celiac disease groups and |
| barley or rye is the reason why a person has | | | | medical centers who are advising their patients to |
| celiac disease. Oats also contain gluten, and | | | | go ahead and eat limited amounts of oats, saying |
| whether one with celiac disease should continue | | | | that this could even provide beneficial effects to |
| taking it or not remains still controversial to this | | | | them. There are studies showing that when this |
| day. There are some who believe that oats can | | | | food is consumed in no more than about half to |
| be tolerated by a celiac disease sufferer. | | | | three quarters of a cup of rolled dry oats per day |
| Celiac disease patients get deficiencies in vitamins | | | | for adults and a quarter of a cup per day for |
| and acquire problems in the brain, nervous | | | | children, there were no abdominal symptoms |
| system, bones, liver and other vital organs of the | | | | observed. |
| body. An immune reaction in the small intestine of | | | | The oats that can be taken by celiac disease |
| one with celiac disease develops, leading to its | | | | sufferers could depend on what variety is taken. |
| damage and inability to absorb certain vitamins | | | | A team of Italian and Australian doctors |
| and nutrients from the food he takes. There is no | | | | conducted tests on three kinds of oats: the |
| medicinal cure for this disease; people inflicted with | | | | avenins of the Italian variety Astra, the Australian |
| this ailment manage their disease by eating a | | | | variety Mortlook and the Austrlian Lampton |
| gluten free diet. | | | | variety. The tests showed that Lampton is much |
| While celiac disease is considered still as a | | | | safer than either the Astra or Mortlock varieties. |
| relatively rare disorder, it is now affecting about | | | | Some patients respond well to oats but there are |
| one in 250 people worldwide. To manage their | | | | still a number of patients who could not tolerate |
| problem, celiac disease patients are advised to | | | | them, even those of the Lampton variety. The |
| have a gluten-free diet, with oats as one of the | | | | protein in oats called avenin triggered an immune |
| food that they should avoid taking. Oats are | | | | response in them similar to gluten. It is difficult to |
| believed to have toxic effects with people having | | | | tell in advance which patients would be sensitive |
| the celiac malady, so they are advised to avoid | | | | to avenins. |