According to a number of symptoms, Anastasia Tsyvkina, an allergist-immunologist, told how to determine if a person has an allergy to gluten and a disease such as celiac disease. Discuss
By words doctor, if a person actually has a gluten allergy, the body usually reacts within a few hours. And the symptoms appear immediately and do not have a cumulative effect, so this condition can be diagnosed.
Symptoms may be as follows: abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, skin rashes, skin itching, Quincke's edema, congestion and mucous discharge from the nose, attacks of labored breathing, and sometimes even anaphylaxis. it is quite difficult to detect. “In the presence of celiac disease, there are no specific signs, and the clinical picture is very diverse. Symptoms may come on gradually and worsen with the use of foods containing gluten. Celiac disease can cause poor weight gain in infants and young children, weight loss in adolescents and adults, bloating, severe diarrhea, poor appetite, and anemia. But such symptoms can also appear in the presence of other abnormalities. Therefore, it is important to carry out differential diagnostics,” Tsyvkina noted.
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Source: RIA Sport