Digestive diseases: Celiac disease?!


Question: Digestive diseases: Celiac disease!?
This is for a science project on digestive diseases!. I had finished my project on peptic ulcers but then I found out someone else in the class had chosen the same disease so the teacher told us that one of us had to choose something else!. The other person had only printed out some stuff from the internet!. I was the unfortunate one who was told to do my project on another disease!. A bit unfair don't you think!?
Anyway!.!.!.

1!. What are the causes of celiac disease!? I know that it's genetic and even though some people may not show symptoms, it can be triggered by stress, pregnancy, surgery, infection, serious injury, childbirth, etc!. but is there anything else which can cause it!?

2!. Are there any treatments for it apart from avoiding food containing gluten altogether (which is more a method of prevention than treatment) !?

These two points are the parts of my project I am unsure about!.
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Answers:
Celiac is a genetic, autoimmune disease!. Exposure to gluten stimulates your immune system!.
You can have the genes, but not the disease, it seems to need to be triggered!. There are many theories about how the disease is triggered, but there does seem to be a trigger!. Basically a stress on the body, or eating gluten too early, or not breast feeding long enough, or even viral infections have been blamed!. For me personally, it was after my son was born that I first noticed symptoms!.
No, there is no cure for celiac, it is hard wired into our systems!. The only "treatment" is to avoid gluten or anything contaminated with gluten (e!.g!. most oatmeal)!. There was talk about maybe an enzyme that would allow people to eat some gluten (like lactase pills can sometimes help people digest lactose who do not produce their own lactase) but nothing has really happened with it!. I personally would never use it, there would be no gaurantee that the enzyme could really break down that 33 amino acid chain that is gluten before it hit my intestine and triggers a reaction!
Hope this helps and good luck on your report! Here is one of my fav websites for celiac education:
http://digestive!.niddk!.nih!.gov/ddiseases!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

im sure that you can find the answers to this in your library!. that's where kids used to do their research in the old days when i was a kid!. ha ha!. good luck on your project!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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