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Celiac disease is the inability of the intestine to assimilate the gluten present in certain foods. However, it is not the only disease that is related to the ability or inability of the body to digest gluten. In addition to celiac disease, which is an autoimmune disease that manifests itself through gastrointestinal symptoms of varying severity, there is also an allergy to wheat and a sensitivity to gluten. But, Is it necessary to limit gluten in the child's diet if he is not celiac?
Gluten intolerance is much more common today than it was 50 years ago, but the real reason, at least for now, is far from what you might think. The truth is that if there are now more diagnosed cases of celiac disease it is simply because the diagnosis, a blood test and a biopsy of the intestinal villi, is much more frequent than it was before.
Although it may seem trivial, this condition can cause very annoying symptoms and relatively important deficiencies, since when damage the walls of the intestine where the absorption of many micronutrients occurs, the difficulty of absorbing them may be increased. It is undoubtedly crucial to make a correct diagnosis to act accordingly, since unfortunately, the only treatment currently available for celiac disease is the total withdrawal of gluten and the foods that contain it. In addition, extreme precautions should be taken with those foods whose proteins may have profiles similar to gluten.
However, due to the general trend to drastically avoid gluten from foods without the need or diagnosis of an intolerance, It may be generating a false celiac disease, atrophying the intestinal villi, which could permanently damage the infant's gastrointestinal tract. In addition, it could cover up celiac disease and make it more difficult todiagnosis, being a double-edged sword.
The reality is that, when faced with certain gastrointestinal symptoms, even with symptoms not related to the gastrointestinal tract, such as hyperactivity or other neurological manifestations, parents decide, without consulting the doctor, to eliminate gluten from the child's diet.
By removing gluten, some symptoms may disappear - and in the case of real celiac disease, the intestinal villi recover - so that, in the face of diagnostic tests, the result will probably be negative, even if the child suffers from celiac disease.
That is, if a child does not take gluten by choice of the parents but is celiac, his disease will be masked and there will be no control over the evolution of his disease, therefore, If at any time you consume gluten, even trace amounts, you may have an extreme reaction.
On the contrary, if the child is not celiac but his gluten consumption is totally restricted, he can also overreact if his organism faces traces of this protein.
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