What Are The Symptoms Of Celiac Disease?

Despite its genetic links, the symptoms of wheat allergies, gluten intolerance, or celiac disease can vary widely and can come and go over time.

Celiac disease affects people very differently. Individuals range from having no symptoms (asymptomatic or "latent" forms of the disease) to extreme cases where patients develop a number of symptoms.

In between these two extremes lie a wide variety of symptoms that you should be aware of:

- Diarrhea
- Constipation
- Steatorrhea (fatty stools that float rather than sink)
- Seizures
- Excessive gas
- Abdominal pain with stomach bloating
- Chronic fatigue
- Weakness
- Weight loss
- Bone and joint pain
- Easily fractured bones
- Muscle cramps
- Including burning, prickling, itching or tingling
- Edema
- Headaches
- Peripheral Neuropathy (tingling in fingers and toes)
- Irritability and depression.
- Mouth sores
- Menstrual irregularities
- Skin rash
- Tooth discolouration
- White flecks on the fingernails
- Fuzzy-mindedness after gluten ingestion
- Burning sensations in the throat

By identifying the fact that you have one or more of these symptoms and been correctly diagnosed as having celiac disease, allows you to accept and therefore manage the condition.

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