I recently got talking to somebody who was diagnosed with coeliac disease two years ago. He told me he does not get any symptoms when he eats gluten – no bloating, wind, toilet trouble, fatigue… nothing. So, initially, he ignored the advice and continued to include it in his diet.
Then he went to see his consultant who reinforced that he was indeed damaging his insides, even if it did not feel like it. So he started to follow the gluten-free diet properly. He had another endoscopy and, lo and behold, his villi were improving (when you have coeliac disease, if you have gluten it damages the villi in your intestines).
But it got me thinking about the many times I have heard people say they know someone who had a baby and then was suddenly fine eating gluten again, or that when they tried gluten at a later date there were no symptoms. Also, other coeliacs who say they just have a little bit or if they just eat bread occasionally they are fine.
Could I be wrong, I thought. Here is me making sure a crumb of bread does not come close to me and my coeliac children while other coeliacs were just eating the said bread. Could a little bit of gluten do you no harm?
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Certainly all the research I’d done for Safer Eating pointed to the fact any amount was a no no. So I quizzed the consultant gastroenterologist who looks after my four-year-old daughter and he confirmed it – even if you do not have symptoms, if they looked at your insides, they would see damage. So there you go.
But it must be really hard to cut out gluten if you feel normal when you eat it. I reacted badly and once I knew gluten was the culprit, it was a piece of cake (gluten-free, of course) to give it up.
So as annoying as it may be, stick with being 100% gluten free and your body really will thank you in the long run.
By Karen Woodford, extremely cautious coeliac and mother of mini-coeliacs