Celiac disease is an oft-overlooked diagnosis that can cause a wide constellation of common symptoms, including fatigue, decreased exercise tolerance and a variety of IBS-like gastrointestinal manifestations.
Athletes in particular should suspect this with an unexplained loss in performance or worsening fatigue. It’s diagnosed with a simple blood test.
Because there’s no known medication for treatment, little has been spent in researching new cures apart from a gluten-free diet. That’s unfortunate.
Related posts:
- Hypertension and the DASH diet
- Diagnosing and treating disease is only a small part of a doctor’s job
- How to survive heart disease requiring quintuple bypass surgery, did continuity of care care help?
- Single-payer stories: Die, or pay $450,000
- What if restaurants were paid like doctors?
- The unintended consequences of free HIV screening at hospitals
- Free drug samples
KevinMD.com on Facebook
{ 1 comment }
It seems to be strongly linked to other autoimmune conditions as well, especially type 1 diabetes with 1/8 effected there.
It’s important to distinguish that the blood test isn’t diagnostic, simply a screening tool. A biopsy done via upper endoscopy is diagnostic.
Comments on this entry are closed.