People with Celiac Disease Face Higher Risk of Thyroid Autoimmune Disorders

This is disturbing, but there is at least one study which suggests that the link between celiac and thyroid disease is selenium deficiency. This is common in celiac disease because of the malabsorption problems, and it is essential for proper thyroid function. If these patients above went gluten free without taking extra selenium this hypothesis would fit well.

Google selenium/celiac/thyroid to find the study. I am gluten sensitive and have antibodies to my thyroid, a sub-clinical auto immune problem - which I only discovered by having a private test, most people in the UK would never find out they had it unless their TSH was outside the wide parameters set here.

I have both Celiac and Hashimoto's hypothyroidism. I take thyroid meds, and I avoid all gluten in foods and non-food products. My niece was recently diagnosed with celiac and hypothyroid disease, too.

This makes me wonder several things:

1) The amount of trace gluten unwittingly entering the newly diagnosed patients? (i.e through consuming packaged products containing <20ppm of gluten, personal care products containing gluten, or airborne gluten inhaled into the oral passages and onto the digestive system from gluten-containing environments or pets, etc.)

2) Co-factors also affecting their autoimmune systems? (i.e. mercury fillings)

3) The affect of iodide being counteracted through salt which may contain small amounts of gluten anti-caking agents (as opposed to receiving it through SSKI potassium iodide).

4) The year and location of the study, and whether radiation from Fukushima nuclear power plant leakage may have any affect?

I have both celiac and Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism. After six years on a gluten-free diet and still suffering from malabsorption problems, I read about an Array 4 test for gluten mimickers. After taking the test it ends up I when I eat tapioca, it has the same effect on me as wheat, barley, rye and oats. Eight months after removing tapioca from my already gluten-free diet, I am no longer suffering from the side effects of celiac disease.

Thank you for this information, I will definitely check on the selenium because I try to stay gluten free but still don't feel

like I know as much as I should.

So now that we have studies for the thyroid disorders that may develop or have developed in celiac, what can celiacs do to better treat their thyroid issues (recognize symptoms) in a natural way and or by medical treatment?

I would prefer natural personally.

I too have both thyroid and celiac and took years to diagnose because they did not show in the initial tests.

Part Three:

I have been misdiagnosed with every non curable syndrome you can think of.... Low FODMAP AND GLUTEN FREE has saved my life...literally...

Those Aussies are light years ahead of the US in terms of understanding GUT health. I have read, and researched this without the help of ANY doctors... they refuse to even discuss food intolerances as it relates to my symptoms... they just want to hand out symptom treating drugs ( That will ALWAYS make me sicker ) or operate on me...

I HAVE HAD 'E-NuFF of that! LOW FODMAP Food is where it's AT! - Sincerely, Lori Muir, Birmingham, Alabama

I have both Celiac and Hashimoto's hypothyroidism. I take thyroid meds, and I avoid all gluten in foods and non-food products. My niece was recently diagnosed with celiac and hypothyroid disease, too.

Hi Donnie

I am having a very hard time obtaining official diagnosis but am almost 100% sure I have celiac and Hashimoto's. Am wondering what symptoms you and your niece experienced?

This study was anything but definitive. There were only 27 subjects that participated. Out of that 27, only 7 had clinical symptoms of thyroid disease with 3 having subclinical manifestations of thyroid disease. It is random writers who wish to write an article about one study that do not demonstrate any knowledge in evidence based medicine. This study was just a prospective study and its findings are hardly conclusive.