GI Nutrition NW

🌍💜 Today is World IBD Day – a day to raise awareness and stand in solidarity with the millions of people living with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

Let’s shine a light on these invisible illnesses and support ongoing efforts for better treatment, understanding, and hope. 💪💜

It’s so important to screen for celiac disease and not self diagnose IBS.

Tell us about your celiac disease symptoms. We can tell you that diarrhea and weight loss are the classic celiac symptoms but currently only 27% of patients present with those complaints. Many people do not have classical gastrointestinal symptoms.

Before 1981, over 90% of patients diagnosed with celiac disease presented to their physician with diarrhea and weight loss as their major symptoms. Currently, only 27% of patients present with these classic symptoms, while 21% of patients are asymptomatic, and the majority (52%) of patients present with atypical symptoms such as constipation, anemia, osteoporosis, elevated liver function tests, neurologic disorders, reproductive disorders etc

https://gluten.org/2021/04/30/ages-and-stages-of-celiac-disease/

If you think you may have a gluten-related disorder, it's important to first examine if you have celiac disease, an autoimmune response to gluten, before starting a gluten-free diet. 👨‍⚕️

If gluten is a problem for you, going back to gluten to get that diagnosis is harder than you could imagine. If you've experienced this, chime in below. 👇

https://gluten.org/2021/09/09/virtual-event-10-19-how-do-you-get-a-celiac-disease-or-gluten-sensitivity-diagnosis/