Sentences with phrase «from damage to the small intestine»

However, selenium deficiency may also occur in celiac disease and other inflammatory bowel disorders due to the malabsorption from damage to the small intestine.

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This damages the surface of the small bowel (intestines), disrupting the body's ability to absorb nutrients from food.

Eventually, damage to the small intestine prevents it from processing the nutrients from other foods.

If you have celiac (which can be diagnosed with a blood test and biopsy of the small intestine), nixing gluten is the only way to reverse the damage and ensure you get the nutrients you need from food.

If you have celiac disease, Holly Strawbridge from Harvard Health explains exposure to just 50 milligrams of gluten (about the amount in one small crouton) can cause a trouble in your gut, damage the lining of the small intestine and produce «gluten allergy symptoms» such as:

When a patient has Celiac disease, and eating gluten causes devastating damage to the lining of the small intestine, the curative treatment is removing gluten from the diet.

During the biopsy, the doctor removes a tiny piece of tissue from the small intestine to check for damage to the villi.

Autoimmune inflammation of the stomach lining can damage the stomach so badly that it can no longer produce a naturally occurring substance (intrinsic factor) that is needed to absorb vitamin B12 from the small intestine.

Your body mounts an immune response in the small intestine in response to the damage from the gluten proteins.

Leaky gut, or increased intestinal permeability, is a condition where the gateways of the small intestine that prevent unauthorized particles from entering the bloodstream become weakened or damaged due to food sensitivities, toxic agents, chemicals, age, or other conditions.

We know that the ingestion of gluten leads to damage in the small intestine of those who suffer from celiac disease.