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How important is avoiding gluten for celiac disease?
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Critical: The treatment of celiac disease is the complete avoidance of gluten. Nothing else works. Usually nothing more is needed. In severe cases malnourishment may require an elemental diet to provide sufficient calories until the intestines heal.
Answered 12/9/2013
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