Description
Fatigue, abdominal pain or tiredness are just some symptoms that produce gluten intolerance, when eating foods that contain this substance. However, there are many patients who do not associate the symptoms with the consumption of these products. Specialists indicate that continuing to consume foods with gluten when the patient is celiac seriously damages their health and can cause certain types of intestinal cancer.
In addition, it is a disease that can be hidden for decades and appear at any time in life. To detect possible celiac disease in Eurofins LGS Megalab offer a specific profile that allows diagnosis in time.
Symptoms
The most frequent gluten intolerance symptoms:
- Diarrhoea
- Weightloss
- Anaemia
- Abdominal pain
- Character change
- Bone pain
In any case, the symptoms vary in each person. Even in most cases, they do not present any symptoms. There are also monosymptomatic and other poly symptomatic people.
Celiac disease or celiac disease is the lack of ability of the body to digest a set of proteins (gluten) found in certain cereals, such as spelt, barley, rye or oats.
By consuming these foods that are intolerant, the body produces antibodies that act against the intestine and cause atrophy of the intestinal wall. Consequently, malnutrition and malabsorption occur.
Studies state that almost 70% of cases correspond to women between the ages of 20 and 40. In the case of men, it is presented after 40 years.
Eurofins LGS Megalab performs a specific test for the diagnosis of celiac disease. To do this, they analyse the presence of an antibody called anti-transglutaminase, which indicates that there is intestinal damage. Total IgA and anti-Gliadin IgA antibodies are also analysed.
When the levels of said antibody are high, it does not always indicate celiac disease, but it is highly suspected. This forces a gastroscopy to take biopsies of the intestine and check if there is an atrophy of the microbiosity.
