Full Gut Recovery Rare in Adult Celiac Disease Despite Gluten-free Diet

Certainly a valid report on this research, BUT it is highly unfair and even dangerous. We know that many FIRST recognized effects of gluten can be in other bodily areas, such as brain diseases! This report may cause assumptions by many that a gluten-free diet will not correct ANY symptoms caused by gluten! A very harmful omission and should be rectified by Jefferson Adams in some way!

I wonder if some of the remaining damage is due to ongoing ingestion of other food items that can cause a similar but lesser reaction: eggs, dairy, soy, yeast, and others.

As much as we don't want to hear this kind of thing, I certainly believe it. Gluten is only one of the foods that damage intestinal villi, with casein (dairy), soy, corn and fluoride being other major contributors. And those with celiac disease are more likely to have problems with sensitivity to the others, thanks in part to Zonulin - that barrier-opening hormone released by the intestinal tract once enough villous damage is sustained.

I'd like to see a study done on the rapidly rising number of people who are going GFCFSFCF. Then we would get a much better idea of just how much harm a trace amount of gluten is causing.

We just have to ask if gluten free is enough. Maybe it's not.

Don't shoot the messenger. This is a good report of interesting research. It says specifically that symptoms disappear. If symptoms have gone the body is healing somewhere.

What it seems to show is that the gut is very slow to heal. They tested after 16 months and I think many of us know it can take several years - and that the hardest bit of the diet is the early bit, where you keep forgetting or don't realize it's in baking powder or chips or whatever.

I wonder if they plan to test again in five years.

Without description of what the patients consumed, this study is questionable. What did this group of people eat to qualify as truly gluten-free? Packaged foods overwhelmingly contain trace amounts of gluten, even those with gluten-free labeling. Therein could be the reason a "Gluten-free" diet for most Celiacs remains ineffective. Had this study been with a group of people who consumed only fresh foods and nothing packaged (including spices, teas, medications, meats, etc.) the findings could be useful.

Interesting that the overwhelming majority of newly diagnosed celiacs in this study were at stage III damage - just goes to show how utterly the medical system is failing at diagnosing celiac disease before the patients are half-dead. Really a pity.

I have one word that explains why people don't heal: CROSS-CONTAMINATION! This is a HUGE issue still being ignored. As more people go gluten free, and instead of changing eating habits they just replace all those gluten carb foods with gluten-free---this will continue to be a problem. Until all the companies and food manufacturers are aware of the seriousness of Cross-Contamination from growing to shipping to storing to grinding----lack of healing will continue. The original 'healing' diet for Celiac was NO grains whatsoever. This is what lack of funding for study of a disease not cured by a pill does for us--------leaves people still sick and in the dark! Very sad.

Data are data. Over-extrapolation by doctors of what they know to fill in their lack of knowledge about celiac patients like us, has caused many of us harm and decades of issues.

The study looked at nothing by villi damage. While I have seen no supporting data, I suspect that the autoimmune diseases are the result of an overreaction to gluten in the gut or after leaking into the blood. So while villi damage likely means high levels of vitamins and minerals for me the rest of my life to avoid the clear expression of deficiencies I had before, I am OK with this. It works. It is like surviving a heart attack and managing afterward. It is not repairing itself to any great extent.

The fact that my hypertension, arthritis, cluster headaches, fuzziness, anxiety, and depression all flare up with abdominal distress to trace amounts of gluten I finally track down in my food diary, says to me that avoiding gluten is paramount regardless if the villi are ever restored.

Would have been nice if a normal gut was a possible outcome, but if it isn't it isn't.

The canary in the cave: my daughter has "dh" (dermatitis herpetiformis) and we were shocked to discover that most foods/vitamins/supplements labeled "Gluten Free" ARE NOT.

She develops excema within 20 minutes of eating contaminated food. It is almost IMPOSSIBLE to eat out without getting contaminated with gluten, even at restaurants with gluten-free menus. We have learned to only buy food/supplements that are labled "CGF" = Certified Gluten Free.

The best that we can do is eat in our gluten free home, then we are all happy (the downside of contamination is also the dark psychological aspects that visits us... for those who don't

have dh look for dilated pupils, and/or rapid heart beat/ depression/irritability, return of sleep apnea, dark eye circles....