Also known as celiac sprue or gluten sensitive enteropathy. This is a digestive and autoimmune disorder that causes damage to the lining of the small intestine when foods with gluten are eaten.
About 1 in 100 people suffer from this condition.
Complications of Celiac Disease: If celiac disease is left untreated, it can cause:
- Weight loss and failure to grow
- Anxiety and depression
- Anaemia due to iron deficiency and folic acid deficiency
- Osteoporosis or Rickets
- Loss of tooth enamel
- Intussusception (one part of the intestine slides into an adjacent part)
- Rectal prolapse
- Lymphoma of intestine and probably cancer of oesophagus
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