“How do you get celiac disease?”
I am a 39 year old female. I was diagnosed with celiac disease. How do you get celiac disease?
2 Answers
A genetically inherited allergic reaction to gluten in diet.
It's mostly the result of genetic predisposition, combined with environmental exposure of gluten which may have changed over time as humans have domesticated it. There is nothing you could have done to cause it, but people manifest it to different degrees.
Make sure that the diagnosis is correct, because sometimes people are given the diagnosis erroneously and you wouldn't want to be on a gluten-free diet for the rest of your life unless the celiac diagnosis is without any doubt. For diagnosis, you need the correct specific antibodies elevated (anti-endomysial or anti-TTG) plus histology of the small intestine (duodenum) consistent with celiac.
Make sure that the diagnosis is correct, because sometimes people are given the diagnosis erroneously and you wouldn't want to be on a gluten-free diet for the rest of your life unless the celiac diagnosis is without any doubt. For diagnosis, you need the correct specific antibodies elevated (anti-endomysial or anti-TTG) plus histology of the small intestine (duodenum) consistent with celiac.
