Interesting article about Celiac disease
Jul. 8th, 2004 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Apparently, it's very often undiagnosed.
Classic symptoms include diarrhea, abdominal pain, gas, bloating and weight loss.
But many patients don't experience those signs and instead report so-called atypical symptoms, including a blistering, itchy skin rash, anemia, short stature, delayed puberty, infertility and tooth enamel defects.
So, now you know. I don't envy anybody with this disease... gluten is in EVERYthing, unless you make it yourself, from scratch. Well, cooking's fun, sure, but not when you have to take the sort of steps about your diet that one'd expect from an Orthodox family. (And I don't envy Orthodox Jews either, for that exact same reason.)
Classic symptoms include diarrhea, abdominal pain, gas, bloating and weight loss.
But many patients don't experience those signs and instead report so-called atypical symptoms, including a blistering, itchy skin rash, anemia, short stature, delayed puberty, infertility and tooth enamel defects.
So, now you know. I don't envy anybody with this disease... gluten is in EVERYthing, unless you make it yourself, from scratch. Well, cooking's fun, sure, but not when you have to take the sort of steps about your diet that one'd expect from an Orthodox family. (And I don't envy Orthodox Jews either, for that exact same reason.)
