What physical symptoms does celiac disease patients have?

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? We have very few patients with celiac disease in our life. This disease generally occurs in Europe. The reason for suffering from celiac disease is that European countries like to use wheat flour, which leads to the emergence of celiac disease. When celiac disease occurs, many people do not know what clinical symptoms are. Let's take a look at the following introduction!

What physical symptoms does celiac disease patients have?

80% - 97% of the patients had diarrhea. Typical cases are fatty diarrhea, droppings are light, numerous, oil like or foam like, often floating on the surface of the water, with many stench. The daily stool frequency ranges from several times to more than ten times; A few early or mild cases may have no diarrhea or even constipation. Abdominal pain is mostly distending pain, often appears before defecation. There may be mild tenderness in the abdomen. Some cases have obvious abdominal distension, nausea and vomiting.

Weight loss, fatigue degree is different, almost inevitable performance, emaciation, fatigue is mainly due to protein, fat and other absorption disorders, dehydration, lack of potassium, anorexia is also an important factor, serious cases can be cachexia.

Vitamin deficiency and electrolyte disorder: calcium and vitamin D deficiency can cause tetany, paresthesia, osteoporosis, osteomalacia and bone pain; vitamin K deficiency can cause bleeding tendency; vitamin B deficiency can cause tongue coating, stomatitis, angular stomatitis, beriberi, pellagra like pigmentation; vitamin A deficiency can cause hair follicle keratosis, corneal dryness, night blindness, etc, More than half of the patients had anemia and concha. A few patients had muscle tenderness and clubbing fingers.

matters needing attention

Strict fasting of all wheat (such as wheat, barley, oats, rye) and its products, such as gluten, roaster and pastry. The patient should choose the food carefully after the start of gluten free diet, and the obvious effect can be seen in 2-3 weeks.