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March 28th, 2012 by Autoimmune Disease Symptoms
Sue Shouldis of Middletown, MD, age 61, began to see the humor in what she’d been through after she started feeling better. A mysterious, debilitating illness crept in and stole her health, her job as a legal assistant and her satisfying life in Florida. In retrospect, though, it seemed kind of funny that food had [...]
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March 25th, 2012 by Autoimmune Disease Symptoms
Celiac disease is an inherited, autoimmune disease in which the lining of the small intestine is damaged from eating gluten and other proteins found in wheat, barley, rye, and possibly oats. Celiac disease is a digestive disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with absorption of nutrients from food. People who have celiac disease [...]
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March 23rd, 2012 by Autoimmune Disease Symptoms
A lifelong autoimmune intestinal disorder, found in individuals who are genetically susceptible. Damage to the mucosal surface of the small intestine is caused by an immunologically toxic reaction to the ingestion of gluten and interferes with the absorption of nutrients. Celiac Disease (CD) is unique in that a specific food component, gluten, has been [...]
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November 15th, 2009 by Autoimmune Disease Symptoms
Autoimmune Disease : Celiac Disease, celiac sprue or gluten sensitive enteropathy is an autoimmune disorder of the small intestines. In our bodies, the small intestine is responsible for the absorption of the foods we eat. When someone with Celiac Disease ingests foods that contain gluten, the body produces antibodies that attack the small intestines and in [...]
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November 12th, 2009 by Autoimmune Disease Symptoms
Autoimmune Disease Symptoms : Celiac Disease: An Overview What is Celiac Disease? Celiac disease is the name attached to the body’s autoimmune reaction to gluten which wears away the lining of the small intestine. Gluten, the cause of the disease, is found in wheat, rye, barley and oats. Is this disease new? No. It has [...]
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November 11th, 2009 by Autoimmune Disease Symptoms
Autoimmune Disease Symptoms : Celiac Disease: An Overview What is Celiac Disease? Celiac disease is the name attached to the body’s autoimmune reaction to gluten which wears away the lining of the small intestine. Gluten, the cause of the disease, is found in wheat, rye, barley and oats. Is this disease new? No. It has [...]
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November 11th, 2009 by Autoimmune Disease Symptoms
Autoimmune Disease Symptoms : You may wonder what Celiac Disease is or if you, or perhaps a loved one, may have it. Celiac Disease is a condition that affects 20% of the people living in the United States and is characterized by an intolerance to gluten, or similar proteins in wheat, oats, barley and rye. [...]
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October 31st, 2009 by Autoimmune Disease Symptoms
Autoimmune Disease Symptoms : Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease of the small intestine causing weight loss, vomiting, chronic diarrhea or constipation with pale, bad-smelling stool, abdominal pain and bloating, lack of growth in children and fatigue. However, the disease may be present with little or few symptoms. Sufferers of celiac disease often present with [...]
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October 11th, 2009 by Autoimmune Disease Symptoms
Autoimmune Disease Symptoms : The REAL Cause of Celiac Disease The information at the end of this article relates to the current known physiology of how people ‘acquire’ the celiac disease (CD). The two sources clearly indicate that while specialists know that gluten causes the disease and the effects of the disease, there is [...]
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