An experimental drug can prevent intestinal damage caused by celiac disease, an early trial has found — raising hopes that it could become the first medication for the serious digestive disorder.
With celiac disease, the immune system attacks the lining of the small intestine when a genetically susceptible person eats gluten — a protein found in wheat, rye and barley.
The symptoms of celiac include diarrhea, abdominal pain, fatigue and weight loss. Underlying it all is an aberrant immune system attack that damages hair-like structures in the intestinal lining called villi. Villi absorb nutrients from food, so people with celiac can become malnourished and develop problems like anemia and thinning bones.
Right now, the only treatment is “rigorous avoidance of even traces of gluten in the daily diet,” said lead researcher Dr. Detlef Schuppan.
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Gluten is likewise found in spelt and, although not naturally occurring in oats, can nonetheless be found in products containing oats unless the oats were grown and properly segregated – including during processing and production – from often neighboring wheat fields and/or production lines and equipment used with gluten containing grains.
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Oat-based foods manufactured in the US can be eaten if the package includes the words “Gluten Free” (no symbols or abbreviations). Those words legally mean that any gluten present is less than 20 parts per million — the resolution limit of current measurement technology.
Spelt is actually a species of wheat.