Autoimmune diseases associated with celiac disease ~ get serious about your health!

Danna Korn’s Living Gluten-free for Dummies is her 2nd Edition of fabulous information in an easy-to-ready style. Get informed!

Start getting serious about eating gluten-free if you’re celiac or gluten intolerant.  Those of us affected are at a greater risk of developing one or more associated autoimmune diseases than the general public.

So much great online research is available supporting this, I’ve put together a few links to read up on, as the information is invaluable.

Some autoimmune diseases associated with celiac disease – per GIG‘s (Gluten Intolerance Group‘s) article (March 2016) – they also provide a ‘printer friendly’ list with explanations of each:

• Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (Type 1 Diabetes)
• Thyroid Cancer
• Grave’s Disease
• Hashimoto’s Disease
• Addison’s Disease
• Autoimmune Chronic Active Hepatitis
• Myasthenia Gravis
• Pernicious Anemia
• Raynaud’s Phenomenon
• Scleroderma
• Sjogren’s Syndrome
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

The Celiac Disease Foundation‘s article What Is Celiac Disease? adds these long-term health conditions for undiagnosed or untreated celiac disease:

• Iron deficiency anemia
• Early onset osteoporosis or osteopenia
• Infertility and miscarriage
• Lactose intolerance
• Vitamin and mineral deficiencies
• Central and peripheral nervous system disorders
• Pancreatic insufficiency
• Intestinal lymphomas and other GI cancers (malignancies)
• Gall bladder malfunction
• Neurological manifestations, including ataxia, epileptic seizures, dementia, migraine, neuropathy, myopathy and multifocal leucoencephalopathy

My third go-to for gluten-free information is from Danna Korn’s book Living Gluten-free For Dummies.  She lists many of the above autoimmune disorders and neurological conditions (1st edition, pg 46), plus:

• Mood disorders:
  • ADD/ADHD,
  • Autism
  • Depression and bipolar disease

Danna Korn’s book is AMAZING and an easy start to helping one ‘settle in’ to a better understanding of celiac disease and gluten intolerance.

If the above has concerned you, it should.  The best news, according to Danna Korn, and other gluten experts is:  Healing Begins On Day One.

Let’s do this!

– wendi e.  :O)

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