i have celiacs but when i eat gluten/wheat nothing happens. What should I do?
-should i ask a doctor?
-Or ignore it ?
P.S. :
Celiac disease is a digestive disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with absorption of nutrients from food. People who have celiac disease cannot tolerate a protein called gluten, which is found in wheat, rye, barley, and possibly oats.
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Have you had blood tests to see if you are deficient in any minerals or vitamins?
If you havn’t, you should. Those with celiacs disease are less able to absorb nutrients from food, so they’re likely to being deficient.
If you have, and you’re not deficient then you can decide whether or not you want to eat gluten free.
Eating gluten when you have celiacs disease does increase the risk of bowel cancer, but only by 1%.
If you don’t have any other symptoms like cramping, nausia, constipation etc then you can choose if you want to go gluten free or not.
My uncle is a doctor and he has celiacs and this is the advice he’s given my mother. She has low iron and other vitamins and minerals and feels better off gluten.
Talk to your doctor though.
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why do you even eat gluten if you have celiac? thats just asking for trouble
I would ask the doctor how that could be!
Or check a website devoted to Celiacs.
You have either "Silent or Latent Celiac disease." You should NOT be ingesting gluten. Individuals without symptoms and possibly no inflammation and villous atrophy on biopsy may develop symptoms and/or histologic changes (microscopic cell changes of a biopsied segment of the small intestine) later on.
You are lucky not to have symptoms now…but you don’t want them later on and various complications that can come with them. The incidence of bowel cancers and Lymphoma is higher than the last person quoted to you
I was diagnosed with celiac disease in December. I had no immediate outward signs of celiac disease but had phases through out my life that I thought I could be explained by CD. Once I was diagnosed, I have come to consider myself more of a silent celiac. While I don’t get sick (vomiting, diarrhea) from eating gluten, I do know it is doing internal damage. I have been osteoporosis meds since I was 32. I have developed other autoimmune disorders including Reynaud’s syndrome and vitiligo. Since I had undiagnosed CD, I was more susceptible to other automimmune disorders. I still need to be checked for CD related problems such as deficiencies, thyroid disorder, depression, and a recurring skin rash. I have also been anemic on-and-off for years which was likely due to the celiac disease. I was lucky that my severe anemia during my first pregnancy did not harm my child. Point is: you don’t have to barf or spend hours on the toilet to have negative effects from eating gluten. If you have been diagnosed with celiac disease, you need to avoid gluten for your own well-being.