Coeliac Disease

Bread is the most common food that my patients talk about. It seems to be causing digestive problems like bloating, headaches, fatigue, nausea, IBS etc. More often than not bread is avoided due to a self diagnosis of wheat/gluten intolerance without really knowing what grain is causing what symptom, and is it actually the grain but something else entirely that is causing the problem? So what's going on?

Dr Chris Steele MBE announced today, 18th January 2010, on ITV's This Morning where he is the show's resident doctor, that he has been diagnosed coeliac disease.

Coeliac disease is an autoimmune disease caused by intolerance to gluten. Damage is caused to the gut lining when gluten is eaten. There is no cure or medication for the condition and the only treatment is life-long adherence to a strict gluten-free diet.