Patient presents with intestinal mucosa damage due to inflammation and infection secondary to auto immune disorder to a protein fraction in wheat. What can occur with celiac disease? What nutrition therapy would you prescribe?

When people with Celiac disease eat gluten which is a protein found in wheat their body mounts an immune response that attacks the small intestine. This attack leads to damage on villi, a fingure like projection on intestine helps in nutrient absorbtion.

Thus nutrients are not absorbed properly. Therefore only treatment of celaic disease is life long adherence to strict gluten free diet. Thus one has to avoid wheat.

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The nutrition therapy that would be prescribed for someone with celiac disease is that the person should stop eating barley and wheat.

Celiac disease refers to the autoimmune and digestive disorder that can destroy the small intestine of a person.

Some of the symptoms with people that have celiac disease include bloating, diarrhea, anemia, fatigue, low blood count, etc. The disease can be triggered by a protein that's known as gluten and this can be found in grains like wheat, rye, and barley.

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