With this article, Gluten Allergy Symptoms, I will attempt to clarify something I feel may confuse people researching Celiac Disease (or Celiac Sprue Disease) and Gluten Intolerance.
Note: If you’re already pretty sure you or your loved one suffers from gluten intolerance, I strongly recommend: The Complete Gluten Free Survival Kit
Before you can understand the problems with gluten, you must be able to answer the question, what is gluten? For that reason, you might start by reading the home page of this site. For a more comprehensive understanding of the unique substance that is gluten itself, try my guide focusing on gluten alone: What Is Gluten?
To be honest, the term gluten allergy symptoms itself creates confusion and I’m not fond of it. I titled this article this confusing term on purpose to draw those using it so I might educate them on why it isn’t the best term for this condition. And yet even as I wrote it, I have come to the conclusion that it may still have a purpose if we can get the health community to use it in a specific way and in a consistent manner.
The first aspect you must understand is that clinical Celiac Disease and even Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity (NCGS) is fundamentally different than an allergy in the traditional sense. Celiac disease is not a food allergy; it is an autoimmune disease. I explain this to some degree with the main article of this site, but because I receive an overwhelming number of emails targeting the phrase gluten allergy symptoms, I thought I better address the term more directly in its own article.
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As you begin to research gluten allergy symptoms in adults, you will discover how the two primary difficulties of identifying and defining gluten allergy symptoms in adults are not symptoms at all but the nebulous nature of the term gluten allergy symptoms and the complicated nature of all its related conditions, especially for adult onset celiac disease or gluten sensitivity. Additionally, it can be a bit difficult isolating adult symptoms from gluten allergy symptoms in children.
Note: If you’re already pretty sure you or your loved one suffers from gluten intolerance, I strongly recommend: The Complete Gluten Free Survival Kit
The most common celiac disease symptoms in adults can sometimes not be present. Instead, the following non-digestive symptoms can occur, which people often don’t immediately associate with celiac disease. These can occur in people suffering from a gluten sensitivity or from clinical celiac disease.
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Note: Already sure you need to be gluten-free? I strongly recommend: The Complete Gluten Free Survival Kit.
In many cases celiac disease symptoms in adults can be particular difficult to discern as many adults have slowly become accustomed to subtle discomforts. Among gluten sensitivity issues, celiac disease symptoms remain the most severe and consequential. Unfortunately, they are not easy to identify or understand. And latent celiac disease may also occur, where the symptoms of celiac disease in adults occur but then fade.
Not all gluten intolerance symptoms are indicative of celiac disease. Some people may be diagnosed as non-celiac gluten sensitive. In some cases, people call it gluten allergy symptoms, but as you will understand if you read my article on that matter, the term gluten allergy is a bit of a misnomer and it is best to separate a wheat allergy from a gluten intolerance or a case of celiac disease.
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