Question 1

i often get sprue how to heal it?

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No Gluten: Sprue is also called celiac disease.  When you eat foods with gluten (ex wheat), your body attacks your small intestine's absorptive cells and you cannot absorb important nutrients.  This leads to diarrhea, weight loss & nutrient deficiency. Avoid all foods, vitamins, etc that contain gluten and see your doctor.

Question 2

dose anyone know about celiac sprue?

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Sure...: Gluten-sensitive enteropathy (celiac disease) is much less common than gluten intolerance. Like lactose intolerance, caffeine intolerance, sorbitol intolerance (with regard to needing to restrict each respective substance), people who are gluten intolerant do better to avoid gluten-containing foods. Only about 10% of the population are gluten intolerant--an inflammatory condition of small bowel.

Question 3

what are the symptoms of celiac sprue?

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Many different ones: When patients with celiac disease eats gluten, they get "villious atrophy", the finger-like projections in their small intestine shrink and fail to properly absorb nutrients. This can result in symptoms of: "1) those due to malabsorption, and (2) those due to malnutrition including vitamin and mineral defiencies".

Question 4

how can one die from celiac sprue disease?

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Rare complications: Long-term untreated celiac sprue can rarely be associated with lymphomas of the bowel-these can be fatal (also can be treated, cured sometimes), increased risk for esophageal cancer (bad disease); other conditions associated which uncommonly can lead to complications. Recognized and treated celiac patients can live long, full, healthy lives.

Question 5

what is best diet with celiac sprue -help!?

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Gluten: Exclude foods containing gluten. Gluten is a protein found in wheat (including kamut and spelt), barley, rye, malts and triticale. It occasionally can contaminate oats so use gluten free oats.

Question 6

how do you diagnosea and treat celiac sprue?

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Blood and biopsy: There are good blood tests to diagnose celiac disease, but the gold standard test is an endoscopic biopsy.

Question 7

what does it mean if my wife has celiac sprue?

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Sprue: Celiac disease is a condition that damages the lining of the small intestine and prevents it from absorbing parts of food that are important for staying healthy. The damage is due to a reaction to eating gluten, which is found in wheat, barley, rye, and possibly oats.

Question 8

positive celiac sprue test - what can i do next?

Accepted Answer

Avoid gluten: No wheat, no barley, no oats. Remember refined white flour - used to bake bread, cake and to make pasta - is wheat. Another thing to remember - you are not alone.

Question 9

how does celiac sprue affect your health, organs?

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Celiac sprue risks: With celiac disease, exposure of the intestine to any gluten causes inflammation of affected gut lining, with a decrease in absorptive surface of that gut, & resulting malabsorption of food. The best & most enduring fix is to avoid eating any gluten. Otherwise, untreated /undertreated celiac disease can result in anemia, weight changes, bone thinning, & even a higher risk of intestinal cancer.

Question 10

what is the main difference between celiac sprue and celiac disease?

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None: Celiac disease and celiac sprue are essentially the same thing.  Celiac sprue is an older term when the symptoms were thought to mainly be gastrointestinal.  Doctors have moved to using the term celiac disease in more modern times to acknowledge that there are so many more body systems affected and constitutes a systemic disease.

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