Once their gut is healed, a person suffering with Coeliac Disease, begins to start reabsorbing nutrients from their small intestine. Usually a diagnosis of Celiac can take a long time and so a person may have had this condition for many years. Their systems may have become depleted of nutrients and they will have become thin and undernourished.
Although in our society there is often a desire to be thin, don't mistake ill health for good weight loss! When everything one eats makes one sick, and one is throwing up or has diarrhoea, and this leads to weight loss, making one really thin, it is not a healthy weight. Ones bones may have started to become depleted because of a loss of calcium and may in fact already be brittle. Their iron deficiency will have led to tired, weak muscles and exercising may have become problematic. The general malaise and fatigue will have become debilitating.
The really good news is that once a proper diagnosis of Celiac Disease is made though blood tests and a gastric investigation, all of these problems will go away. Once a completely gluten free
For once when they begin to eat, carbohydrates, fats and proteins will begin to be properly chemically digested by the intestinal juice, in the enterocytes of the villi. There will be sufficient protection of microbes by the lymph follicles, the correct secretion of hormones and most importantly for the Celiac, appropriate absorption of nutrients.
Once the gut is healed, it is important for the Coeliac patient to start eating small regular meals, making sure to include good protein, good fats and fruit and vegetables. They are cutting out gluten, but it is vital not to make one's
After a few months of strictly cutting out gluten, the gut will begin to heal and food one thought was making one ill will start to not have a reaction. Do not get confused, cut out all gluten and eat simply and sensibly. Eat small meals of healthy proteins and vegetables and good fats (omegas).
Once the intestines are working properly and the body is absorbing nutrients, the patient shouldn't react to all the other food. The body will become more sensitive though and one will be able to tell more specifically if there is other food making one ill. But remember with Coeliac disease there is no compromise, one cannot eat any gluten in any form, but they will become so well that it soon will not matter.