Sentences with phrase «small intestinal lining»

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports as many as 3 million Americans have celiac disease, an autoimmune condition that damages the small intestinal lining in response to eating gluten.

It has long been understood that H. pylori bacteria are the major cause of peptic ulcers (painful sores in the stomach and small intestinal lining), and it is beginning to be suspected that they are involved in GERD.

The condition is autoimmune in nature, which means gluten doesn't cause the damage directly; instead, your immune system's reaction to the gluten protein spurs your white blood cells to mistakenly attack your small intestinal lining.

Zinc deficiency causes leakiness in tight junctional seals and consequently epithelial cell layers of the small intestinal lining.

There are two theories: it's possible that the nutritional deficiencies that occur with celiac's destruction of the small intestinal lining cause the problem indirectly, or the child's immune system may damage the developing teeth directly.

The enzyme alpha - amylase in the saliva, and in pancreatic juice delivered to the duodenum breaks the amylose part of starch to maltose and maltotriose, and the amylopectin part to alpha - limit dextrins and isomaltose, which are then all broken down by the enzymes sucrase - isomaltase and maltase - glucoamylase (commonly referred as alpha - glucosidases) on the surface of the small intestinal lining into glucose, which is absorbed.

Particularly severe SIBO can lead to fatigue and weight loss, which also are seen in undiagnosed celiac disease as the body's immune system destroys the small intestinal lining.

These tests, plus a medical procedure called an endoscopy that allows your doctor to look directly at your small intestinal lining, can definitively identify celiac disease.

In the small intestinal lining, the enzyme trehalase breaks trehalose into two glucose molecules, which are then absorbed [3].

The enzymes peptidases in the small intestinal lining further break down chains of amino acids to either single amino acids or compounds of 2 (dipeptides) or 3 amino acids (tripeptides), which can all be absorbed [68,70].

The stomach and small intestines can not secrete their contents as well, the gut lining has less of a protective mucous barrier, and the small intestinal lining is exposed to food by - products at dangerously high concentration only for a lack of fluid to dilute it.

As the body attempts to maintain the integrity of the small intestinal lining at all costs, proteins that would ordinarily be used for normal growth and repair elsewhere may be appropriated instead for emergency repairs in the intestinal tract.45, 46 Furthermore, lectins consumed with the diet may travel through the damaged «leaky gut» into general circulation, provoking allergic reactions and immune system disruption.