Celiac disease is an autoimmune digestive disorder that occurs in reaction to gluten, a protein found in rye, barley, wheat, and hundreds of foods made with these grains.
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. In some people who are exposed to gluten in their diet, an enzyme called tissue transglutaminase changes the gluten into a chemical that causes an immune response, leading to inflammation of the lining of the small intestine. The normal finger-like projections (villi) that make up the lining of the intestine are blunted and destroyed, preventing the normal absorption of nutrients from the diet.
This malabsorption of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients may lead to damage to other organs in the body, such as the liver, bone, and brain that depend on those nutrients to develop and function normally. In children, the lack of effective nutrition because of malnutrition may cause abnormal growth and development.
There seems to be a genetic predisposition to developing celiac disease, however not all people with a family history of celiac disease develop the condition. There may be another reason yet discovered as to why the autoimmune response occurs.
In addition to family history, the celiac disease seems to be more common in people with type 1 diabetes, microscopic colitis, Sjögren’s syndrome, and autoimmune thyroid disease.
symptoms of celiac disease
Symptoms of celiac disease can vary from mild to severe. Digestive symptoms may include abdominal bloating and pain, diarrhea, and more.
Diarrhea and weight loss because of malabsorption are the classic symptoms of celiac disease, but they occur in less than one-half of people with the disease. The symptoms vary widely in presentation and intensity. Often the symptoms are not related to the bowel function, but instead are due to the consequences of chronic malabsorption of vitamins and minerals, for example, people who complain of weakness, fatigue, joint pain, and are anemic (low blood cell count) because they cannot absorb iron in the diet.
Other symptoms of celiac disease may include the following:
- Headache.
- Fatigue and weakness.
- Joint pain.
- Numbness and tingling (paresthesia) of the hands and feet.
- Osteoporosis due to decreased absorption of calcium and vitamin D.
- Skin rash.
- Abdominal pain.
- GERD and heartburn.
Infants and children may have even less specific symptoms including diarrhea, constipation, weight loss, failure to thrive, and developmental delays.
Diagnose celiac disease
For allopathic doctors, the diagnosis of celiac disease is often delayed, and it may take several months or years for the patient and the doctor to think of it as the cause of its many nonspecific symptoms. History and physical examination may give direction as to the diagnosis, but commonly it takes many visits with the patient complaining of recurrent abdominal pain, nonspecific joint aches, or demonstrating chronic anemia that does not respond to iron treatment, to raise the suspicion that celiac disease is a possibility.
On the other hand, for Homeopathic doctors, it’s very easy to diagnose celiac disease and daily/routine clinical cases.
There is a two-step screening process to make the diagnosis:
- Blood test for immunoglobulin an anti-tissue transglutaminase antibody (IgA TTG). Testing for antiendomysial antibody may also be considered.
- If the screening blood test is positive, then endoscopy and biopsy of the lining of the duodenum (the first part of the small intestine) is recommended.
It is important that the patient eats a regular diet for many weeks before the testing procedures. If the patient has already started a gluten-free diet, it may cause the tests to be falsely negative.
Once the diagnosis is made, screening for osteoporosis may be appropriate.
Since it is often familial, once one person in the family is diagnosed with celiac disease, it is reasonable to have other close family members screened.
Allopathic treatments and diets
Currently, the only allopathic treatment for celiac disease and the inflammation of the small intestine caused by gluten protein exposure is a lifelong gluten-free diet, there is no indication to begin treatment with a gluten-free diet, however, a repeat biopsy might be considered if signs and symptoms develop or if symptoms of malabsorption are present.
What is silent celiac disease, and how is it treated?
Individuals may be screened for celiac disease and have both a positive antibody blood test and a positive small intestine biopsy, and yet have no symptoms. This is considered silent celiac disease, and the recommendation is to perform further testing to look for malabsorption complications such as anemia and osteoporosis. A gluten-free diet may be indicated if these tests are positive.
The gluten-free diet fails to control the symptoms including abdominal pain and malabsorption. These patients are considered refractory to diet treatment. It is important that other types of bowel disease, including Crohn’s disease are first excluded before making this diagnosis. If diet therapy fails to resolve symptoms, refractory celiac disease is often treated with the same medications used in other autoimmune disorders to decrease inflammation. These medications include corticosteroids, azathioprine and cyclosporine.
Homeopathic Treatment for celiac Disease
Homeopathy has wide range of medicines for celiac disease, here are very few of them:
Natrum Sulphuricum
Natrum Sulph is the best treatment for celiac disease. Diarrhea – yellow, watery, voluminous and greasy. A burning sensation after passing stool. Rumbling and gurgling along with diarrhea. Cramps around the umbilical region. Pain in the abdomen. Slimy, thick, tenacious, white mucus in mouth. Bitter mouth taste, blisters on palate. Brown, bitter coating on tongue. Bilious vomiting, acid dyspepsia, with heartburn and flatulence.
Duodenal catarrh; hepatitis; liver sore to touch, with sharp, stitching pains. Flatulency; wind colic in ascending colon. Burning in abdomen and anus. Bruised pain and urging to stool.
Pulsatilla Pratensis
Averse to fat food, warm food, and drink. Eructation. Bitter taste, diminished taste of all food. Vomiting of food eaten long before. Pain in stomach an hour after eating. Abdomen painful, distended, loud rumbling. Pressure as from a stone. Colic, with chilliness in evening.
Stool rumbling, watery; worse, night No two stools alike. Blind hemorrhoids, with itching and sticking pains. Dysentery; mucus and blood, with chilliness.
Silica Tera
Sour eructation. Pit of stomach painful to pressure. Vomiting after drinking. Pain or painful cold feeling in abdomen. Abdomen hard, bloated. Colic; cutting pain, with constipation; yellow hands and blue nails. Rumbling in bowels. Hepatic abscess. Rectum feels paralyzed. Anal fistula. Fissures and hemorrhoids, painful, with spasm of sphincter. Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly expelled, recedes again. Great straining; rectum stings; closes upon stool. Feces remain a long time in rectum. Constipation always before and during menses; with irritable sphincter ani. Diarrhea of cadaverous odor.
Merc Corrosive
Incessant, green, bilious vomiting. Epigastrium very sensitive. Abdomen – bruised sensation; cecal region and transverse colon painful, bloated; very painful to least touch. Dysentery: tenesmus, not relieved by stool; incessant. Stool hot, bloody, slimy, offensive, with cutting pains and shreds of mucous membrane.
Merc Solubilis
Putrid eructation. Intense thirst for cold drinks. Weak digestion, with continuous hunger. Stomach sensitive to touch. Hiccough and regurgitation. Feels replete and constricted.
Abdomen: Stabbing pain, with chilliness. Boring pain in right groin. Flatulent distention, with pain. Liver enlarged; sore to touch, indurated. Jaundice. Bile secreted deficiently. Stool greenish, bloody and slimy, worse at night, with pain and tenesmus. Never-get-done feeling. Discharge accompanied by chilliness, sick stomach, cutting colic, and tenesmus. Whitish-gray stools.
Rheum Palmatum
Desire for various kinds of food, but soon tires of all. Throbbing in pit. Feels full. Colic about navel. Colic when uncovering. Wind seems to rise up to chest. Before stool, unsuccessful urging to urinate. Stools smell sour, pasty, with shivering and tenesmus, and burning in anus. Sour diarrhea during dentition. Colicky, even ineffectual urging to evacuate altered fecal stools.
Phosphorus
Hunger soon after eating. Sour taste and sour eructation after every meal. Belching large quantities of wind, after eating. Throws up ingesta by the mouthfuls. Vomiting: water is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach.
Abdomen feels cold. Sharp, cutting pains. A very weak, empty, gone sensation felt in whole abdominal cavity. Liver congested. Acute hepatitis. Fatty liver. Jaundice. Pancreatic disease. Large, yellow spots on abdomen.
Very fetid stools and flatus. Long, narrow, hard difficult to expel. Desire for stool on lying on, left side. Painless, copious debilitating diarrhea. Green mucus with grains like sago. Involuntary; seems as if anus remained open. Great weakness after stool. Discharge of blood from rectum, during stool. White, hard stools. Weeping hemorrhoids.
Calcara Carbonica
Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils also, for eggs, salt and sweets. Sour eructation; sour vomiting. Heartburn and loud belching. Cramps in stomach; worse, pressure, cold water. Pain in epigastric region to touch. Thirst; longing for cold drinks. Aggravation while eating. Hyperchlorhydria.
Abdomen sensitive to slightest pressure. Liver painful. Cutting in abdomen; swollen abdomen. Flatulence. Gall-stone colic. Increase of fat in abdomen. Umbilical hernia. Crawling and constriction in rectum. Stool large and hard; whitish, watery, sour. Prolapse ani, and burning, stinging hemorrhoids. Diarrhea of undigested, food, fetid, with ravenous appetite. Constipation; stool at first hard, then pasty, then liquid.
Calcara Phosphorica
Flatulence. Great hunger with thirst flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructation. Heartburn. At every attempt to eat, colicky pain in abdomen. Sunken and flabby. Colic, soreness and burning around navel. Bleeding after hard stool. Diarrhea from juicy fruits or cider; during dentition. Green, slimy, hot, sputtering, undigested, with fetid flatus. anal fistula.
Nux Vomica
Sour taste, and nausea. Weight and pain in stomach. Flatulence and pyrosis. Sour, bitter eructation. Nausea and vomiting, with retching. Stomach very sensitive to pressure. Dyspepsia from drinking coffee. Difficult belching of gas. Wants to vomit but cannot.
Abdomen bruised sore. Flatulent distension, with spasmodic colic. Liver engorged, with stitches and soreness. Colic, with upward pressure, causing short breath, and desire for stool. Strangulated hernia. Forcing in lower abdomen towards genitals. Umbilical hernia of infants.
Constipation, with frequent ineffectual urging, incomplete and unsatisfactory. Constriction of rectum. Irregular, peristaltic action; frequent ineffectual desire or passing. Alternate constipation and diarrhea. Urging to stool felt throughout abdomen. Itching, blind hemorrhoids. Scanty stool, with much urging. Dysentery: stools relieve pains for a time. Constant uneasiness in rectum. Diarrhea with jaundice.
Natrum Muriaticum
Hungry, yet loose flesh. Heartburn with palpitation. Unquenchable thirst. Throbbing in pit. Sticking sensation in cardiac orifice. Cutting pain in abdomen. Distended. Pain in abdominal ring on coughing. Burning pains and stitching after stool. Anus contracted, torn, bleeding. Constipation: stool dry, crumbling. Painless and copious diarrhea, preceded by pinching pain in abdomen.
Iodium
Throbbing at pit of stomach. Ravenous hunger, thirst. Empty eructation. Loss flesh, yet hungry and eating well. Liver and spleen sore and enlarged. Jaundice. Mesenteric glands enlarged. Pancreatic disease. Cutting pain in abdomen. Hemorrhage at every stool. Diarrhea, whitish, frothy, fatty. Constipation, with ineffectual urging. Constipation alternating with diarrhea.
Carbo vegetabilis
Eructation, heaviness, fullness, and sleepiness; tense from fetid flatulence, with pain. Eructation after eating and drinking – rancid, sour, or putrid. Burning in stomach, extending to back and along spine. Faint gone feeling in stomach. Crampy pains. Digestion slow; food putrefies before it digests. The simplest food distresses. Epigastric region very sensitive.
Intestinal fistulae. Flatus hot, moist, offensive. Itching, gnawing and burning in rectum. Acrid, corrosive moisture from rectum. A musty, glutinous moisture exudes. Soreness, itching moisture of perineum at night. Discharge of blood from rectum. Burning at anus, burning varices. Frequent, involuntary cadaverous-smelling stools, followed by burning. White hemorrhoids; excoriation of anus. Bluish, burning piles, pain after stool.
China Officinalis
Stomach: Tender, cold. Vomiting of undigested food. Slow digestion. Weight after eating. Ill effects of tea. Hungry without appetite. Flat taste. Darting pain crosswise in hypogastric region. Milk disagrees. Hungry longing for food, which lies undigested. Flatulence: belching of bitter fluid or regurgitation of food gives no relief; worse eating fruit. Hiccough.
Flatulent colic. Tympanitic abdomen. Gall-stone colic. Liver and spleen swollen and enlarged. Jaundice. Internal coldness of stomach and abdomen. Gastro-duodenal catarrh. Undigested, frothy, yellow; painless stool.
Kali Carbonicum
Flatulence. Gagging. Dyspepsia, burning acidity, bloating. Sour eructation. Nausea, sour vomiting; throbbing and cutting in stomach. Epigastrium sensitive externally. Epigastric pain to back.
Abdomen: Stitches pain in liver. Old chronic liver troubles, with soreness. Jaundice and dropsy. Distention and coldness of abdomen. Pain from left hypochondrium through abdomen. Large, difficult stools, with stitching pain an hour before. Hemorrhoids – large, swollen, painful. Itching, ulcerated pimples around anus. Large discharge of blood with natural stool. Burning in rectum and anus. Easy prolapsus.
Bryonia Alba
Nausea and faintness. Abnormal hunger, loss of taste. Vomiting of bile and water immediately after eating. Stomach sensitive to touch. Pressure in stomach after eating, as of a stone. Liver region swollen, sore, tensive. Burning pain, stitches; worse, pressure, coughing, breathing. Tenderness of abdominal walls. Constipation: stools hard, dry, as if burnt; seem too large. Stools brown, thick, bloody.
Thuja Occidentalis
Complete loss of appetite. Rancid eructation. Cutting pain in epigastrium. Flatulence; pain after food; sinking sensation in epigastrium before food; thirst. Tea-drinking dyspepsia.
Abdomen distended, indurations. Chronic diarrhea. Discharges forcibly expelled, gurgling sound. Brown spots. Flatulence and distension; protruding here and there. Rumbling and colic. Constipation, with violent rectal pain, causing stool to recede. Piles swollen; pain worse sitting, with stitching, burning pains at the anus. Anus fissured; painful to touch with warts.
Lycopodium Clavatum
Dyspepsia. Food tastes sour. Sour eructation. Great weakness of digestion. Bulimia, with much bloating. After eating, pressure in stomach, with bitter taste in mouth. Incomplete burning eructation. Abdomen bloated, full. Constant sense of fermentation in abdomen. Hernia, right side. Liver sensitive. Brown spots on abdomen. Dropsy, due to hepatic disease. Hepatitis, atrophic from of nutmeg liver. Pain shooting across lower abdomen. Diarrhea. Inactive intestinal canal. Ineffectual urging. Stool hard, difficult, small, incomplete. Hemorrhoids; very painful to touch, aching.
Colocynthis
Bitter taste. Tongue rough, scalded. Canine hunger. Drawing abdominal pain – agonizing cutting pain. Sensation as if stones are in abdomen. Intestines feel as if bruised. Colic with cramps in calves. Cutting in abdomen. Pain in small spot below navel. Dysenteric stool renewed each time by the least food or drink. Jelly-like stools. Musty odor. Distention.
Arsenic Album
Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or drinking. Anxiety in pit of stomach. Burning pain. Heartburn. Long-lasting eructation. Vomiting of blood, bile, green mucus, or brown-black mixed with blood. Stomach extremely irritable; seems raw, as if torn. Gastralgia from slightest food or drink. Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, ice-water, tobacco. Terrible fear and dyspnea, with gastralgia also, faintness, icy coldness, great exhaustion. Liver and spleen enlarged and painful. Ascites and anasarca. Abdomen swollen and painful. Rectum painful, spasmodic protrusion. Tenesmus. Burning pain and pressure in rectum and anus.
Stool small, offensive, dark, with much prostration. Dysentery dark, bloody, very offensive. Cholera, with intense agony, prostration, and burning thirst. Burning hemorrhoids.
complications of celiac disease?
The inability to properly absorb vitamins, minerals, and nutrients from the diet can affect many organs in the body. Since the diagnosis of celiac disease is often delayed, there can be significant issues with iron deficiency anemia, osteoporosis because of decreased levels of calcium and vitamin D, and poor growth and development.
Aside from the other associated autoimmune disorders that might also be present, celiac disease is associated with an increased incidence of lymphoma and small intestine cancer. This risk is reduced in patients who maintain a strict gluten-free diet.
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