6 Comorbidities of Gluten-Sensitive Enteropathy #shorts

5 Oct 2021 · 1 min

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The speaker explains that celiac disease, formerly known as celiac sprue, is an autoimmune disorder of the small intestine triggered by gluten. Gluten exposure inflames the intestinal lining, leading to intestinal damage, reduced absorptive capacity, altered gastrointestinal immunity, impacts on the GI nervous system, and micronutrient malabsorption. The speaker also notes that celiac disease is linked with other autoimmune conditions such as type 1 diabetes and Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and in severe cases can be associated with certain intestinal lymphomas.

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The disease called celiac disease, it used to be called celiac sprue, is an autoimmune disease of the small intestine that is triggered by these gluten molecules essentially inflaming the lining of the small intestine. When we look at celiac disease, we see that we have intestinal damage. We have a decrease in absorptive capacity, which can change our immunology in the GI tract, our GI nervous system, our micronutrient absorption, a whole bunch of things that we don't want. And also celiac is associated with type 1 diabetes and also Hashimoto's thyroiditis. There's also in extreme cases some types of intestinal lymphomas.