COELIAC sufferers in West Dunbartonshire are being urged by health professionals and the general public to take coeliac disease seriously.
As part of the charity’s Awareness Week activities are being held highlighting the symptoms and emerging evidence relating to previously unknown complications of the autoimmune disease.
Sarah Sleet, chief executive of Coeliac UK said: “Many see coeliac disease as just a disease of the gut, when in fact it is a systemic disease that can affect other parts of the body.
“A coeliac disease diagnosis is often missed because the patient is not presenting with gut symptoms, but rather they may present with neurological symptoms and are directed to a neurologist rather than a gastroenterologist.”
The treatment of gluten related neurological conditions is - like coeliac disease - a lifelong strict gluten free diet.
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