Thursday, August 11, 2011

Treatment Of Celiac Disease

Celiac disease has no cure, but you can effectively control the disease by changing diet.

Changes in your diet to avoid gluten

You can control the disease and prevent complications, it is important to avoid all foods containing gluten, including:

Barley

Bulgur

Durham

Flour

Graham flour

Rye

Semolina

Spelt (a form of wheat)

Triticale

Wheat

Your doctor can refer you to a dietitian to help you plan a healthy eating gluten-free diet.

Once you have removed the gluten from your diet, inflammation in the small intestine begins to fade, usually within a couple of weeks, but you can start feeling better within days. Complete healing and regeneration of the villi may take several months or even two or three years. Healing in the small intestine tends to occur more rapidly in children than in adults.

If you accidentally eat a product containing gluten, you may experience abdominal pain and diarrhea. Some people experience no signs or symptoms after eating gluten, but that does not mean it is not harmful. Even trace amounts of gluten in your diet can be harmful, whether or not cause signs or symptoms.

Malnutrition, vitamin supplements

If your nutritional deficiencies are severe, you may need to take vitamin and mineral supplements recommended by your doctor or dietitian to help address these shortcomings. Your doctor may recommend nutritional supplements to increase your level:

Calcium

Folate

Iron

Vitamin B12

Vitamin D

Vitamin K

Vitamin supplements can be taken in pill form. But in some situations, the digestive tract may have trouble absorbing vitamins. In these cases, your doctor can give an injection of vitamins.

Drugs to control intestinal inflammation

In cases of severe inflammation of the intestine, the doctor may recommend medicines called steroids to control inflammation. Steroids can be used to give relief of signs and symptoms before the serious effects of a gluten-free diet began to become evident.

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