When a person with coeliac disease ingests food with gluten, a strong inflammation occurs in the upper part of the intestine that prevents the body from absorbing certain nutrients from the food. Since the small intestine is the main seat of nutrient uptake in the bloodstream, malfunctioning of this mechanism may deprive the brain, nervous system, bones, liver and other organs of essential substances, causing in some cases serious vitamin deficiencies that can lead to other diseases.If not treated properly, celiac disease can lead to malnutrition and this can be serious especially for children, who need appropriate nutrition to develop and grow.
Through the constant loss of fat in the stool, even calcium can be eliminated in excessive quantities and from this can arise two other complications.
But as we have already said, the cure exists and is the elimination of gluten from the diet, the results are visible after a few weeks.
At the beginning you may need to take vitamin and mineral supplements to help correct food deficiencies. In children the advantages of a gluten-free diet are immediate: not only do their physical symptoms improve immediately, but also their behavior and growth immediately begin to normalize.
Every year in Italy are diagnosed more than ten thousand cases of celiac disease, so now it is a known disease and that is entering, sepur slowly, in the daily life of restaurateurs who aim to carefully accommodate the needs of customers.