Can you define celiac as a food allergy?
and if you can- how come you can't treat it with alternative medicine- like you do for other types of food allergies???
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Answers (1) to: "Can you define celiac as a food allergy? "
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No, celiac is not defined as a food allergy, because the mechanism of injury to the bowel mucose after exposure to gluten containing products is much more severe than the regular allergic reaction. The damage caused to the bowel is by severe inflammation and destruction of the bowel "villi", and in a regular food allergy the only problem caused is either mal-digestion or other allergic manifestations such as a rash (aside from actual anaphylaxis).
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