ANATOMY
This organ is affected by celiac disease.
What is the small intestine?
This is the only known "treatment" for Celiac Disease.
What is a strict gluten-free diet?
This is gold standard of diagnosing celiac disease.
What is a biopsy?
This can be challenging for people living with celiac disease or food allergies.
What is eating out?
Celiac disease is a food allergy.
What is False?
Celiac Disease is an autoimmune disease.
This is the length of the small intestine.
What is 20 feet?
Companies use this as a filler agent in their foods.
What is wheat?
Celiac Disease is often misdiagnosed as this condition.
What is Irritable Bowel Syndrome?
It is gluten-free, yet its name includes the word wheat in it.
What is Buckwheat?
It is okay to eat a tiny bit of gluten as long as you drink lots of water with it.
What is False?
People with celiac disease should avoid all gluten at all times.
These are the finger like projections in the small intestine that are damaged by celiac disease.
What are villi?
Gluten-free diets can lack in this very important nutrient.
What is fiber?
This is a test that can be done to diagnose lactose intolerance.
What is a Hydrogen Breath Test?
People with celiac disease often have this intolerance.
What is Lactose Intolerance?
All people with celiac disease have similar symptoms.
What is False?
Some people with celiac may not have any symptoms.
This system responds to the presence of a Gluten protein by attacking the small intestine.
What is the immune system?
Due to its attack on the small intestine, patients with celiac disease are often deficient in these nutrients.
What are folate, iron and calcium?
This is the gold standard for diagnosing food allergies.
What is a Double-blind, placebo-controlled oral food challenge?
This is the number of people worldwide are affected by celiac disease.
What is 1 in 100?
Eczema is a common symptom of celiac disease.
What is False?
People with celiac disease may have a skin condition called dermatitis herpetiformis.
This is the term used for the condition of shortened villi in the intestine.
What is Mucosal Blunting or Villous Blunting.
This is the percentage of people with celiac disease that may still be exposed to gluten while trying to maintain a gluten-free diet.
What is 70%?
According to celiac disease expert Dr. Joseph A. Murray of the Mayo Clinic, as much as 70% of people continue to be exposed to gluten while on their gluten-free diet.
These HLA markers are necessary for the development of celiac disease.
What are HLA DQ2 and DQ8?
Explanation: Most patients with Celiac disease test positive for DQ2. All patients with celiac disease test positive for one of these alleles however, you can be positive for these alleles and never develop celiac disease.
People with untreated celiac disease are at a higher risk of this type of cancer.
What is Lymphoma?
Celiac disease is an immune system condition, which involves lymphocytes. When the immune system doesn't function properly, it can lead to immune cells dysfunction. NOTE: while those with celiac disease may be at an increased risk of developing lymphoma compared to people without celiac disease, it is still a very rare condition.
If you have celiac disease, all you need to worry about is avoiding gluten.
What is False?
Merely eating gluten-free doesn't exempt you from watching everything else about your diet. You do need to eat a healthy well-balanced diet and consider your other health issues such as weight, diabetes, high blood pressure or cholesterol.