Symptoms of Celiac Disease - How Serious Can it Be?

In this day and age, medical advances have2. Weariness or extreme Fatigue - People who
helped us find and cure some of the diseases oursuffer from this type of disease are usually
ancestors used to fear but the ones that havedrained of energy and suffer tiredness.
truly transcended time would be those that our3. Arthritis - pains in the bodies joints.
ancestors passed on to us which are in the form4. Osteoporosis - bone loss.
of hereditary diseases. It is a disease that affects5. Depression
the small intestine or rather the villi that help us6. Anxiety - Some people may suffer a different
absorb nutrients into the body. It has manyreaction which makes them more anxious than
sources but one known fact is it can bedepressed.
genetically passed down from our forefathers and7. Numbness in hands and feet
change the way we live our lives. People who8. Seizures- this is the most dangerous clue of all
suffer from the symptoms of celiac disease -the symptoms among people with Celiac Disease.
swollen stomachs, vomiting, tiredness, odorous9. Missed menstrual periods.
stools and the possible symptoms of gluten10. Infertility
intolerance, usually have difficulty with foods11. Recurrent miscarriages
containing gluten which creates so many internal12. Canker sores
problems since their auto-antibodies are forced to13. Dermatitis Herpetiformis - An itchy rash on
destroy the villi more than they help protect it.the skin.
A gluten-free diet is needed to handle this type ofAll of these are the main symptoms of occur in
disease as it is the only way to fully avoidadults and teenagers alike except for those that
complications that may occur in advance to theare above the age of puberty. The handling of a
symptoms of food allergies and lactosechild is different from an adult because the child
intolerance occur. The body can become acan possibly develop even more terminal diseases
network of random diseases that may function allif not taken care of at an early age compared to
at once due to just one internal problem. Celiacan adult who may have a chance by keeping to
disease is usually noticed when symptoms ofthe gluten-free diet. The only valid treatment for
Crohn's disease occurs- which is an inflammationis to uphold a strict gluten-free diet and make
of the small intestine that could cause ulcers andsure the person does not indulge in food with a
irritable bowel syndrome that could be result tolot of gluten such as wheat, rye or barley. In the
the two diseases working together, making itcase of those with added symptoms of lactose
painful for the person.intolerance, they must be careful not to trigger
The main symptoms that are known to giveboth symptoms of food allergies that are the
clues to a person with Celiac Disease are:Celiac Disease and Lactose Intolerance.
1. Anemia - a lack of iron in the blood.