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If you have celiac disease then it will damage your small intestine.
In your small intestine
Celiac disease is a disease of the digestive system that damages the small intestine and interferes with the absorption of nutrients from food.
The official definition for Celiac disease is "a disease in which the small intestine is hypersensitive to gluten, leading to difficulty in digesting food."
Celiac disease: risk assessment, diagnosis, and monitoring.
Celiac disease-- A disease, occurring in both children and adults, which is caused by a sensitivity to gluten, a protein found in grains. It results in chronic inflammation and shrinkage of the lining of the small intestine.
When someone with celiac disease eats foods containing gluten, that person's immune system causes an inflammatory response in the small intestine, which damages the tissues and results in impaired ability to absorb nutrients from foods.
Some symptoms of celiac disease is throwing up, diarrhea, weight loss, rashes. Some people who have celiac disease may not have any symptoms but to find out for sure if you have celiac disease you would need to take a blood test.
This is the deadening or wasting away of the membrane lining the duodenum (small intestine connected to stomach) .
A Celiac disease test involves finding out if the small intestine is sensitive to gluten, and such tests include the endomysial antibody (EMA) test and the tissue transglutaminase antibody test.
the small intestine.
Small-intestine tissue exhibiting abnormalities may indicate Whipple's disease. lymphoma. parasitic infections. celiac sprue. infectious gastroenteritis. folate and B12 deficiency. malnutrition.