Re: Increased Reflux and IBS in Celiacs

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JC, great post, but tis a flawed check, you cannot treat even those with one of these diseases as all in a lump, digestive problems, celiac, IBS, chrons seems to affect each individual differently within the same disease. We know too much stomach acid and too little acid yield the same symptoms. But a dock here in the states will prescribe prilosec for both.

All these diseases cause the immune system to attack the digestive tract, where the system attacks determines each disease, so LDN should be scribed. then go from there.

I think if you have such, you need to be your own doctor so to speak. That is reach out and try your own thing, and monitor your results in adjunct with your doctor.

stay vertical, david a lubbock tx

[low dose naltrexone] Increased Reflux and IBS in Celiacs

Interesting article:-

Barrat et al. found that the celiac patients had higher rates of belching and dysphagia than inflammatory bowel diseases sufferers in this study and also than reported previously. They highlight that despite the high (71%) degree of adherence to the gluten-free diet, 22% of celiac patients still reported severe enough IBS symptoms to affect their QoL. They infer from this finding a couple of noteworthy things. First, that the gluten-free diet may not adequately control IBS symptoms in celiac patients. But also, that doctors are perhaps not inquiring about reflux and IBS during consultations, or patients are under-reporting their prevalence. The authors thus suggest that QoL might be improved for these patients if doctors were more diligent in assessing them for reflux and irritable bowel syndrome.

http://www.celiac.com/articles/22460/1/Increased-Reflux-and-Irritable-Bowel-Syndrome-in-Celiacs-Yields-Lower-Quality-of-Life/Page1.html

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