Celiac Disease

Yair

Teen Health 8

Topics of Discussion

• What is celiac

• The symptoms

• The diagnoses process

• The effects

• The statistics

• The treatment

What is Celiac

• Celiac is an intolerance to grains with gluten in them

• The main grains are wheat, barley, rye, and there is a debate over oats.

• Celiac is a disease which is auto immune which means your body hurts itself.

Symptoms

• Diarrhea • Constipation • Abdominal pain • Excessive gas • Any problem

associated with vitamin deficiencies

• Iron deficiency • Chronic fatigue • Weakness • Weight loss • Bone pain • Easily fractured bones

Symptoms Continued

• Abnormal or impaired skin sensation

• Including burning, prickling, itching or tingling

• Headaches

• White flecks on the fingernails

• Fuzzy-mindedness after gluten ingestion

• Burning sensations in the throat

Symptoms in Kids

• Failure to thrive • Paleness • Querulousness,

irritability • Inability to

concentrate

• Pot belly with or without painful bloating

• Pale, malodorous, bulky stools

• Frequent, foamy diarrhea, foamy diarrheaNote: Some people have these

symptoms well others may not. Every celiac is different.

Diagnoses Process

• Blood test for enzymes or antigens in the blood(specific)

• upper G I with a biopsies

• Xylose test

• Gluten-Free Diet for six months than blood test.

Celiac can take years before it is diagnosed because of testing

Effects

• can be deadly• malnutrition • inflammation in the

small intestine• irregular villi

Effect to Villi

Normal Villi Damaged Celiac Villi

Statistics

• 1 in every 250-300 Americans

• 1 in 10 get celiac if it is in the family

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PeoplewithCeliac inFamily

Treatment

• There is no medication for celiac

• The treatment is a gluten-free diet for life

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