What is celiac disease?
Averalian and Alerts from Cappadocia in the first century of the new era described the symptoms of celiac disease. The disease is also called gluten enteropathy, intestinal infantilism. Around 1970, doctors considered a rare disease celiac disease, making this diagnosis on average one person from three thousand. But after 1980, new techniques for diagnosis began to be applied. It turned out that such a disease is suffered by one of two hundred or even one of a hundred people. Hidden and subclinical forms are much more common than gluten disease with severe impairment of the suction process. In people who suffer from celiac disease, the intolerance to a certain protein of food, referred to as gluten. If this protein is in the intestines, which are rich in wheat, barley, rye and other cereals, then the intestine is inflamed, and digestion is disturbed. Glyadin (one of the components of gluten), hitting the body, leads to the activation of the immune system, which leads to inflammation of the intestine. I note that even small amounts of gluten cause such an organism reaction. That is why people suffering from gluten enteropathy should be completely eliminated from their everyday diet all products containing rye, barley, wheat and even oats (according to some data). It is believed to fully heal celiacs at present it is impossible. But if the patient strictly obsesses the gluten-free diet, then all the symptoms of the disease disappear.
Causes of such pathology
Why do people appear this disease? It has been established that the predisposition to the intolerance of gluten is transmitted by inheritance, the information is recorded in certain genes. And if the newborn receives such genes from mom or dad, then he has a serious risk of the possible development of celiac disease. Usually the first symptoms are manifested by the child when it is first faced with gluten. That's just not always parents and doctors understand that the baby is celiac disease. Often the diagnosis is set by another, treatment is appointed ineffective, unsuccessful. The pediatrician may mistakenly assume, for example, that child has lactase deficiency, Dysbacteriosis. And only after longtones and wandering for doctors, by 30 years old is put to a person's correct diagnosis.
Basic symptoms of the disease
So far, the only method that improves the condition of the patient leading to the disappearance of the manifestations of celiac disease, doctors consider strict adepent, excluding any amount of gluten in products. After two weeks, the patient states positive changes in the body. But such a diet must be observed throughout life. If a person adapts to the symptoms of celiac disease and does not want to observe a gluten-free diet, then this is fraught with complications. Serious complications include intestinal cancer, frequent fractures, and, bones are bad, infertility. With aggravating inflammation, it may even be necessary to appoint steroid hormones. Sometimes the doctor recommends protein preparations, glucose, fat emulsions; Corrects acid and alkaline equilibrium and water-electrolyte balance.
We will list only the most common products from a large list, which must be completely excluded from the diet of people suffering from gluten disease:
- All that is made of wheat (wheat flour and starch, bread, pastries, semolina and wheat porridge, kvass, pasta, and the like);
- everything that contains barley (barley, jacket, barley starch and flour, kvass);
- Everything that has in the composition of rye (rye crackers, bread, rye flour, kvass);
- sausages, semi-finished products from the supermarket, sauces, canned food, candy, melted cheese chewing gum and much more, which contains dyes, flavors;
- Vodka, beer.
It should be mentioned that the offs gluten does not contain, however, it and its derivatives in a number of patients also cause inflammation of the intestinal mucosa and the symptoms characteristic of celiac disease.
Some Soviets
Include in your diet buckwheat, millet, corn, rice. There is no gluten in them.
Nutrition must certainly be diverse, do not forget more often eat vegetables, fruits, fish, meat.
Damage to health can even apply a small amount of gluten protein, so carefully read and study the composition of the products you want to purchase in the store.
Now on the shelves of stores for sale, medical nutrition, which does not contain gluten, on it there is a marking in the form of a cross-shutter.
Some manufacturers on colorful labels make a useful inscription «Made without gluten». Such products you can eat in food.
Will have to inform the relatives that you (or the child) celiac disease, tell us in detail that many products to eat contraindicated. After all, often relatives from good motives want to make a pleasant person, treat it, and such dishes and delicacies may worsen health.
Keep your products without glutena separately from those that eat other family members so that even crumbs (for example, from bread) did not get into them.
If you just go to a diet without gluten, then in the first weeks exclude dairy products, the inflamed intestine is difficult to digest. Over time, you can return them to your dining table.
Learn even the composition of drugs before applying, now some manufacturers include gluten and there, for example, in the sheath of tablets.
Prevention of gluten disease
Our site has already warned its readers that if one of the parents sick celiac disease, then the child has an increased risk of this disease. How to reduce this risk?
- It is desirable that mom feeds a newborn breast milk at least four months after his birth. Already proven scientists that breast milk significantly reduces the predisposition to this pathology.
- The lore must be introduced gradually, while continuing to feed the baby breasts.
- First, give the baby a small number of products with gluten, carefully follow the health.
- To find out if a child has a risk of a disease, a pediatrician can assign screening analyzes if we inform him that relatives have celiac disease.
- It has been established that some intestinal infections (such as rotavirus or intestinal flu) moved by a child can provoke celiac disease. Vaccination made up to three-month age can save the baby from such an infection.
Gluten enteropathy continue to study, doctors and scientists hope that they will be able to cure people from this disease. In the meantime, patients remain only clearly follow a strict diet.
