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How to Live With Gluten Allergy
Gluten Allergy, Celiac disease, or gluten-sensitive enteropathy, is an auto-immune disorder in the intestines, which is initiated by gluten, a protein found in several cereal grains. Therefore, everyone with celiac disease have got to follow a gluten-free diet. Be sure to study the gluten allergy symptoms and if you suspect gluten allergy contact your doctor.
Where is Gluten Found? The major sources of gluten in the diet include wheat, rye, and barley. Oats may be accepted in very small quantities by certain patients with celiac disease, although those with severe disease typically don’t.
Dairy foods might not be tolerated when persons with celiac disease has active symptoms, since lactose intolerance frequently develops. However, this is because of the lactose sugar in the dairy foods, rather than the proteins, which can cause milk allergy.
What Common Foods are Gluten-Free?
Foods such as soybean flour, tapioca flour, rice, corn, buckwheat and potatoes are usually safe for people with celiac disease. See below for more information regarding a gluten-free diet.
Why Follow a Gluten Free Diet?
* Even if there are no apparent symptoms, celiac disease can cause dangerous vitamin and nutritional deficits, since the intestines may not be able to absorb important nutrients if gluten is being eaten.
* Rates of certain cancers of the gastrointestinal tract are much higher in people with celiac disease, and there is evidence that this risk is decreased with a gluten-free diet.
* People with active celiac disease are at increased risk for other auto-immune conditions, (such as diabetes mellitus type 1, Graves disease and Hashimotos thyroiditis) especially those with continued gluten exposure.
* Mothers with untreated celiac disease are at increased risk for having a low birth weight baby.