Non-coeliac gluten intolerance is the inability or difficulty digesting gluten, which is a protein found in wheat, rye and barley; in these people, gluten damages the walls of the small intestine, causing diarrhea, abdominal pain and swelling, as well as preventing the absorption of nutrients.
In coeliac disease there is also gluten intolerance, but there is an immune system reaction that causes a more serious condition, with inflammation, severe pain and frequent diarrhea.See more symptoms and how coeliac disease is treated.
- Gluten intolerance is permanent and therefore has no cure.
- And gluten needs to be completely removed from food for symptoms to disappear.
- Learn more about what gluten is and where it is located.
Symptoms that may indicate possible gluten intolerance can be seen in childhood, when cereals are introduced into the baby’s diet.Common symptoms include:
In some cases, there may not even be any of these symptoms and gluten intolerance will only be discovered after the manifestation of other manifestations derived from the disease, such as low stature, refractory anemia, joint pain, chronic constipation, osteoporosis or even infertility.
Learn more about each symptom that may indicate intolerance and take the online test to find out the risk.
The causes of intolerance are not quite known, however, it is possible that gluten intolerance has a genetic origin or is caused by an alteration of intestinal permeability, in addition, it is also possible that intolerance is caused by the combination of these two factors.
In addition to symptoms, intolerance can be diagnosed through tests such as:
These tests can help diagnose gluten intolerance as well as a gluten-free diet over a certain period of time to assess whether symptoms are disappearing or not.
Treatment of gluten intolerance essentially consists of excluding gluten from the diet for life. Gluten can be replaced in many situations by corn, cornmeal, cornmeal, cornstarch, potatoes, potato starch, cassava, cassava flour or starch, for example.
When gluten is removed from your diet, symptoms may go away within days or weeks.
The gluten intolerance diet consists of removing from food all gluten-containing foods, such as those prepared with wheat flour, such as cakes, breads and biscuits, replacing them with others, such as cornmeal cake, for example.
Therefore, anyone with gluten intolerance should exclude the following foods from their diet:
It is important that the person follows the diet correctly to avoid the complications that the disease can cause and, therefore, it is important to check if the food contains gluten and, if it has it, not consume it.This information is available on most food labels.
See more tips for a gluten-free diet
Also check out other gluten-containing foods you should avoid and foods you can eat:
In addition, tapioca is gluten-free and is an excellent choice for replacing bread in the diet.See which recipes you can prepare in Tapioca that can replace bread in your diet.