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Common Allergy Symptoms
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A lot of food contains gluten inside but it can react some allergy symptoms in some people. In serious cases, the symptoms lead to celiac disease. You should be more aware to what you consume and your body's reaction to your consuming gluten. Celiac disease is not the same as common allergic reactions such as hay fever or peanut allergies. Gluten intolerance is more systemic and a condition that can ruin your digestive tract in long period. The process begins when your body overreacts to the gluten in its system. This makes your immune response slowly kills the villi in your intestines. This will be dangerous because villi which are tiny hairs act to capture and absorb the nutrients from your food. When they are reduced, you cannot digest and process your food and the nutrients in it. The symptoms are almost the same with other digestive problems such as bloating and flatulence in light occurrence. As time goes by, they increase in number and become more severe. This intestinal discomfort will be added with constipation and diarrhea. The other common gluten allergy symptoms include headaches, fatigue and a lowered immune system which means that you get easily sick more often. In later stages, the symptoms of gluten allergy are the same as bad malnutrition and of course many people do not think this is malnutrition as they eat proper healthy food. Therefore, when you do not know you have gluten intolerant and you keep eating foods contain gluten; you can become malnourished although you eat nutritious food. So it is very important to have your body checked as soon as possible when you feel those symptoms. You must immediately cut gluten from your diet although it is difficult at first. You do not have to worry because there are still various foods with no gluten. Also you will get some advises from the doctor to cure your condition. |
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