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Following a diet free of gluten (wheat flour) in two weeks there is an improvement of symptoms in most cases. If no improvement may be that the diet is not suitable or because complications occur lymphoma. In asymptomatic individuals the diet is made also because the disease tends to worsen if nothing is done and because the [...]

Diagnosis is made by measuring specific antibodies in the blood, a biopsy of the intestine and symptoms. Duodenal biopsy is often, but will be more sensitive to the jejunum. Are three different models that vary according to clinical presentation: Villous epithelial infiltration with lymphocytes, with normal villi and crypts. This model was found in 40% of [...]

Mechanisms involved in gluten intolerance: Lack of digestive enzymes (intestinal glutaminase) Production of anti-prolamin antibodies, or fragments of it. Increased intestinal permeability to macromolecules and protein antigens. Increased production of mediators (histamine, serotonin, kinins, prostaglandins, and interleukins). The first-degree relatives have a predisposition to be found on chromosome 6 and is the most common marker [...]

sprue is a lesion or disorder in the form ulser (ulcers) found in the oral cavity. Ulser disorders have various types, but most often experienced by people is the kind of aphtous stomatitis or Canker Sores. What causes ulcers? What symptoms of ulcers? And how treatment ulcers? Causes of Sprue The lesions are usually found [...]