what is coeliac disease?

Answer 1

Coeliac disease is a condition caused by an inability to digest gluten, which often results in bowel symptoms, weight loss or failure to gain weight, and lack of certain vitamins and minerals with consequential problems such as anaemia and osteoporosis.

Symptoms
Diarrhoea and bulky, smelly motions that float often occur in coeliac disease. This results in less nutrients being absorbed from the bowel, and thus weight loss or failure to grow and put on weight in children. Sufferers sometimes have a swollen or bloated belly.

Children with coeliac disease may eat a lot, but not put on any weight or lose weight. (This can also be a symptom of diabetes.)

People with coeliac disease may also develop problems associated with absorbing iron and vitamins less well ie anaemia, which leads to general tiredness and sometimes shortness of breath or fluid retention.

Coeliac disease may cause problems in the bones by reducing the absorption of calcium and vitamin D from food. This may cause osteoporosis or osteomalacia.

More info at: http://www.medinfo.co.uk/conditions/coeliac.html

Answer 2

It is a non infectious disease that causes diarrhea and failure to survive. The cause is gluten sensitivity. Gluten causes the villi in the intestine to flatten and it this causes the malabsorption syndrome.

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Answer 4

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