Nancy LC
Sun, Dec-31-06, 10:43
Feeling fuzzy headed, forgetful, clumsy, strange sensations on the body? It might be wheat causing your issues. It sure was for me! I felt like my brain was turning to jello in my head. I had a hard time learning new stuff, my memory was getting just horrible, I often just dropped things for no good reason. I've been GF/CF for about 1.5 years now and I feel like I have gotten a new brain, or at least the old one back and fully functioning.
Celiac diease, gluten and the brain-gut connection supported by finding of intestinal and brain antibody deposits. (http://thefooddoc.blogspot.com/)
Snippets: Many patients I have seen with gluten sensitivity describe symptoms of balance difficulty, concentration problems or “brain fog”, headaches, and neuropathy and a few report symptoms such as “bug crawling” sensations and strange muscle twitches. These symptoms commonly improve with gluten-free diet and return with intentional or accidental gluten exposure. In some intestinal symptoms or skin rashes occur, often at the same time as the onset of the brain symptoms but some don't have any gut symptoms. The concept of gluten as a cause of brain symptoms is still not one widely known or accepted by many doctors, especially in the United States. However in Europe, especially England, Germany and Scandinavian countries, as well as Australia and New Zealand the gluten brain-gut connection is more accepted.
Dr. Hadjivassiliou and colleagues recently published a report of nine patients with gluten ataxia compared with seven patients with ataxia due to other causes. They found tissue transglutaminase IgA deposition on jejunum intestinal tissue on all nine patients with gluten ataxia but none of the control patients. Brain tissue from an autopsy of one patient with gluten ataxia was also found to have IgA tTG deposits in the cerebellum, pons and medulla of the brain but not in a control brain.
Previous studies have found negative blood celiac blood tests in patients with gluten ataxia suggesting that they may not have celiac though they had gluten related disease. In light of a new report that blood test negative celiac disease can have intestinal tTG and advanced intestinal damage it is curious to wonder if the gluten ataxia patients with blood tests negative are seronegative celiac disease. It is increasingly appearing that there is a very broad spectrum of gluten related disease and there are non-celiac gluten related symptoms that include the brain, skin, musculoskeletal system as well as the gut.
Celiac diease, gluten and the brain-gut connection supported by finding of intestinal and brain antibody deposits. (http://thefooddoc.blogspot.com/)
Snippets: Many patients I have seen with gluten sensitivity describe symptoms of balance difficulty, concentration problems or “brain fog”, headaches, and neuropathy and a few report symptoms such as “bug crawling” sensations and strange muscle twitches. These symptoms commonly improve with gluten-free diet and return with intentional or accidental gluten exposure. In some intestinal symptoms or skin rashes occur, often at the same time as the onset of the brain symptoms but some don't have any gut symptoms. The concept of gluten as a cause of brain symptoms is still not one widely known or accepted by many doctors, especially in the United States. However in Europe, especially England, Germany and Scandinavian countries, as well as Australia and New Zealand the gluten brain-gut connection is more accepted.
Dr. Hadjivassiliou and colleagues recently published a report of nine patients with gluten ataxia compared with seven patients with ataxia due to other causes. They found tissue transglutaminase IgA deposition on jejunum intestinal tissue on all nine patients with gluten ataxia but none of the control patients. Brain tissue from an autopsy of one patient with gluten ataxia was also found to have IgA tTG deposits in the cerebellum, pons and medulla of the brain but not in a control brain.
Previous studies have found negative blood celiac blood tests in patients with gluten ataxia suggesting that they may not have celiac though they had gluten related disease. In light of a new report that blood test negative celiac disease can have intestinal tTG and advanced intestinal damage it is curious to wonder if the gluten ataxia patients with blood tests negative are seronegative celiac disease. It is increasingly appearing that there is a very broad spectrum of gluten related disease and there are non-celiac gluten related symptoms that include the brain, skin, musculoskeletal system as well as the gut.