How Can Celiac Disease Diet Help You
What is celiac disease, and how can celiac disease diet bring relief?
Celiac disease is a digestive condition that damages the small intestine when gluten food is eaten.
These attacks are triggered by a type of protein, and gliadin, that form part of the gluten fraction found in wheat, barley, and rye.
Some celiac disease patients may experience unfavorable reaction to oats.
Some products such vitamin and nutrient supplements, some medicines, and lip balms may include gluten.Celiac disease may also go by other names such as gluten intolerance, and celiac sprue.
There is no cure for
celiac disease symptoms,
however a celiac disease diet and some other remedies can be of great relief from the ailment. The disease can be hereditary and affects both children and adults.
Foods that contain gluten adversely affect people with celiac disease. Their immune system responds unfavorably by invading and damaging the villi in the intestine.
Damaged villi cannot be receptive to nutrients needed by the body. This prevents blood from the villi to absorb nutrients in the food.
Celiac disease affects people in different ways and celiac disease symptoms may include
diarrhea,
bloating, and nausea.
 
Treatment for the disease will require strict celiac disease tests to determine the route causes, however there is no easy test for it.
The easiest way to get relief is to consider diet, supplements, and homeopathic natural home remedies.
Celiac disease diet
A proper diet is the single most important treatment for this condition. You will need to eliminate all foods containing gluten from your diet.
Foods containing gluten include Ice cream, ice cones, baby cereal, biscuits infant formula,
bread, breakfast cereal, pasta cakes and cake mixes,
pancakes, pancake syrup, pudding mix, noodles, cookies,
frankfurter, malted and powdered milk,
whipped cream substitutes, crackers, wheat flour,
salad dressings, potato chips, wheat, rye and barley.
More foods and product that may include gluten -
Croutons, dispersing agents, imitation bacon, imitation seafood, marinades, preservatives, gravies, packaged foods, and excipients ((added to prescription medications).
Gluten food list is very long, so do your possible best to get just a few on the list.
Oats that are mass produced can be contaminated with gluten. Oats that are pure whole grain, rolled, or steel cut, can be eaten.
Consider a lactose-free diet, because diary and lactose are common allergens that can mimic gluten sensitivities in people with celiac disease.
Vitamins and supplements
Celiac disease patients tend to have many nutritional deficiencies, so it’s best to take multivitamins and multi-minerals to address the deficiencies. Accompany the proper dosage of these
supplements
with celiac disease diet.
Take 2-3 digestive enzymes with every meal, but if you feel a warm sensation in your abdomen, take less of the enzymes.
A high potency B-complex injection or 100 mg in capsule form, 3 times a day can be of great relief, since celiac disease patients do not absorb B-vitamins easily.
You may need extra vitamin B-12 in injection, capsule form, or sublingual form (placed under the tongue until pill dissolves).
Other common deficiencies are essential fatty acids, vitamin D, Vitamin K, iron, calcium, magnesium, folic acid and zinc.
You may have to consult a practitioner to identify your nutritional deficiencies, then, apply the supplements in the following dosages.
400 mcg of folic acid – once a day
50 mg of zinc – 2 times a daywith 1-2 mg of copper a day
100 mg of iron per day. Lower dosage as deficiency is resolved.
1,000 IU of vitamin D a day
60 mcg of vitamin K a day
1,000 of calcium (citrate or malate) a day with 400 mg of magnesium citrate.
Consider taking probiotic that includes sachromyces boullardii, and bifidus species daily to restore good bacteria flora to the gut.
Herbs such as mallow roots help improve intestinal lining. Flax oil and fish oil help to relieve inflammation from celiac disease.
It is important to accompany these supplement remedies with celiac disease diet.
Homeopathic remedies
The following remedies may give temporary relief while seeking professional advice and treatment with celiac disease diet.
Nux vomica: If you pass stool frequently but your bowel movement feels incomplete, try using the recommended dosage of nux vomica.
Lycopodium: If acidity, bloating, and gas, causes your digestive tract to be disordered, lycopodium is recommended for that.
Carl carb: This remedy is helpful for people with sluggishness especially in the digestive tract. The sluggishness lead to frequent indigestion, burping with an unpleasant sour taste in the mouth.
Juicing – celiac disease diet
Date and fig juices
Dates and figs contain unique protein carbohydrate complexes and mineral salts which stop an abnormal response started by gluten in the small intestine. This response can lead to an overproduction of white blood cells.
Method of preparation
Rinse out some pitted dates and juice them with the water on them. Treat the figs the same way, but cut off their stems before
juicing.
Date and figs are incredibly sweet, so dilute the concentrate with carrot juice. Do not consume more than one-half cup of straight date-fig concentrate at one time.
Caution: this remedy has too much natural sugars for people with blood sugar problems, like
diabetes,
and hypoglycemia.
If you rely on celiac disease diet and the proper supplements, juices and other remedies upon approval of your medical practitioner, your chances of relief is great.
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