Coeliac disease occurs in people who become sensitive to a particular protein in their diet called gluten. Gluten is found in wheat and other cereals.
It is normally a nourishing and quite harmless part of the food we eat.
But if you have coeliac disease, gluten causes damage to the lining of your small intestine.
This can cause problems with absorption – the process of getting the nutrients and vitamins
that we have eaten into the body.
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Coeliac disease can be diagnosed at any age from infancy to old age,
but is most commonly recognised in children and young adults.
The treatment, which is usually very successful, is to remove all sources of gluten from the diet.
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http://www.corecharity.org.uk/content/pdfs/A5_coeliac.pdf.
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David
