Is the Current Treatment For Celiac Disease Good Enough?


As of now there is no known medicine yet for the treatment of celiac disease. The only remedy for the problem is the modification of one's diet so there is no gluten content of the food that he eats, since the malady is caused by the small intestine's inability to absorb the nutrients because it is allergic to gluten. This remedy to tackle celiac disease perhaps makes sense especially because this medical problem may have been caused by dietary deficiencies or inappropriateness, in the first place.

Celiac disease, a digestive condition that is caused when you eat the protein gluten, may be due to too much eating of food like bread, pasta, pizza crust and other foods made or containing wheat, barley or rye. There may have been a lack of balance in the afflicted person's diet before, as a balanced diet is important in one's health and wellbeing. Too much gluten could have caused the destruction of the villi in one's small intestines making it unable to absorb the nutrients and resulting in the deficiencies that makes the person vulnerable to other diseases. A malnourished person exposes himself to ailments that otherwise would have been easily avoided if he was only eating the right diet.

They say that celiac disease is inherited - if one's elders had the malady in their time, he is likely to have the problem too. If he has been eating the unbalanced diet that his parents and grandparents have been eating all through the years, then the disease also could affect him, not necessarily because of genetics but more because of the unbalanced diet of the family for generations.

Removing the gluten in the diet is the key now to reducing the inflammation in the small intestines caused by celiac disease. Once the celiac sufferer starts eating gluten free food, the symptoms of the malady disappear. This tends to show that the disease really may have been due to the wrong kind of food being taken by the afflicted person. If this change in the diet is good enough to counter the effects of celiac disease there may not be any medicine at all that may be discovered or needed to provide the remedy for this medical problem.

In the first place it is a well known fact that food itself is a kind of medicine for one's health. This means that if you have a good balanced diet, your body can tackle any disease that may challenge it.