What gluten does to you?

1% percent of American's are gluten sensitive

Celiac Disease (sound out like silly-ack.)

• Celiac disease makes your antibodies come to fight the poison or better known as gluten.
• They make antibodies that break down tiny hairs in your intestine (called villi)
• Celiac disease is a autoimmune disease, NOT a allergies and is not contagious.
• Celiac disease may run in your family if you have it .( The word for that is genetic.)
• Symptoms of Celiac disease: 
•  stomachaches
• need to go to the bathroom a lot
• crabby
• tired
• Celiac disease was discovered in  Holland during World War ||. There were lots of kids who were  sick. During the war there was a wheat shortage and later, the kids got better. 

Non-celiac gluten sensitivity

• You would have the same symptoms of Celiac disease but the doctors test come out negative (which means you don't have it.) 
• The only way to figure this out is to go on a gluten free diet.
• This is not an autoimmune  disease.
• Does not cause permanent damage.

Wheat allergy 

• This is like if someone has a peanut allergy.