Gluten is found in many products made with grains. Gluten is best known in medicine for its involvement in celiac disease. People with celiac disease avoid products containing gluten as a means of keeping their symptoms at bay. Research demonstrates that gluten can also cause or worsen many other medical conditions, even in people without celiac disease. Some ways to repair damage from gluten include conjugated linoleic acid (Link) and probiotics (Link).
Conditions associated with gluten intolerance:
abdominal pain
allergies
anaphylaxis
ataxia
bloating
cancer
dermatitis herpetiformis
diabetes
diarrhea
fatigue
headaches
IgA nephropathy
irritable bowel syndrome
linear IgA bullous dermatosis
mental illness
myopathy
neuropathy
psoriasis
urticaria
References:
A double-blind gluten-free/gluten-load controlled trial in a secure ward population. (Link)
A long-term gluten-free diet as an alternative treatment in severe forms of dermatitis herpetiformis. (Link)
A novel wheat gliadin as a cause of exercise-induced anaphylaxis. (Link)
A woman with daily headaches. (Link)
Aggressive gluten challenge of dermatitis herpetiformis cases converts them from seronegative to seropositive for IgA-class endomysial antibodies. (Link)
Allergenicity of wheat flour. (Link)
An exception within the group of autoimmune blistering diseases: dermatitis herpetiformis, the gluten-sensitive dermopathy. (Link)
Autoantibody targeting of brain and intestinal transglutaminase in gluten ataxia. (Link)
Between celiac disease and irritable bowel syndrome: the “no man’s land” of gluten sensitivity. (Link)
Bread wheat gliadin cytotoxicity: a new three-dimensional cell model. (Link)
Celiac disease in children with diarrhea is more frequent than previously suspected. (Link)
Celiac neuropathy. (Link)
Clinical, radiological, neurophysiological, and neuropathological characteristics of gluten ataxia. (Link)
Contact urticaria induced by hydrolyzed wheat proteins in cosmetics. (Link)
Cytoskeleton reorganization and ultrastructural damage induced by gliadin in a three-dimensional in vitro model. (Link)
Dermatitis herpetiformis and neurological dysfunction. (Link)
Dermatitis herpetiformis: effect of gluten-free diet on skin IgA and jejunal structure and function. (Link)
Dermatitis herpetiformis. (LInk)
Diabetes preventive gluten-free diet decreases the number of caecal bacteria in non-obese diabetic mice. (Link)
Diet and psoriasis: experimental data and clinical evidence. (Link)
Dietary treatment of dermatitis herpetiformis. (Link)
Differential mucosal IL-17 expression in two gliadin-induced disorders: gluten sensitivity and the autoimmune enteropathy celiac disease. (Link)
Does gluten cause gastrointestinal symptoms in subjects without coeliac disease? (Link)
Editorial: Can gluten contribute to irritable bowel syndrome? (Link)
Fast omega-gliadin is a major allergen in wheat-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis. (Link)
Food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis: a report of two cases and determination of wheat-gamma-gliadin as the presumptive allergen. (Link)
Gluten ataxia. (Link)
Gluten causes gastrointestinal symptoms in subjects without celiac disease: a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial. (Link)
Gluten sensitivity in a subset of children with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. (Link)
Gluten sensitivity in sporadic and hereditary cerebellar ataxia. (Link)
Gluten sensitivity: from gut to brain. (Link)
Headache and CNS white matter abnormalities associated with gluten sensitivity. (Link)
Humoral immune responses of workers occupationally exposed to wheat flour. (Link)
Imaging analysis of the gliadin direct effect on tight junctions in an in vitro three-dimensional Lovo cell line culture system. (Link)
Immunoglobulin and HLA-DP genes contribute to the susceptibility to juvenile dermatitis herpetiformis. (Link)
Improved xenobiotic metabolism and reduced susceptibility to cancer in gluten-sensitive macaques upon introduction of a gluten-free diet. (Link)
Life-threatening, recurrent anaphylaxis caused by allergy to gliadin and exercise. (Link)
Linear IgA bullous dermatosis responsive to a gluten-free diet. (Link)
Low molecular weight glutenins in wheat-dependant, exercise-induced anaphylaxis: allergenicity and antigenic relationships with omega 5-gliadins. (Link)
Mediterranean diet and primary IgA nephropathy. (Link)
Myopathy associated with gluten sensitivity. (Link)
Myosin IXB gene region and gluten intolerance: linkage to coeliac disease and a putative dermatitis herpetiformis association. (Link)
Neurologic and psychiatric manifestations of celiac disease and gluten sensitivity. (Link)
Neuropathy associated with gluten sensitivity. (Link)
Occurrence of nonceliac gluten sensitivity in patients with allergic disease. (Link)
Predictors of clinical response to gluten-free diet in patients diagnosed with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome. (Link)
Relationship of dietary gluten intake to dapsone dose in dermatitis herpetiformis. (Link)
Sensory ganglionopathy due to gluten sensitivity. (Link)
The gluten connection: the association between schizophrenia and celiac disease. (Link)
The humoral response in the pathogenesis of gluten ataxia. (Link)
The neurology of gluten sensitivity: separating the wheat from the chaff. (Link)
The significance of diet and associated factors in psoriasis. (Link)
Wheat allergy. (Link)
Wheat gluten as a pathogenic factor in schizophrenia. (Link)
