The symptoms are the same ehatever the cause for the gouten intolerance.
The physiology involves damage to the tips of the intestinal villi. If these are reduced in height due to damage at the tips, then gluten can not be digested as it is digested at the tips. There can be many causes for this inability to digest gluten due to damage of the villi, celiac/coeliac being one of them. High coritsol for extended periods also does it, due to the catabolic nature of this stress hormone, and villi tips are the first to go.
One very nasty problem is that every exposure to gluten, once the villi damage is done, actually does more damage making the condition progressively worse.
In homeopathy, the resulting symptoms should be helped whatever the cause...but like you I prefer to know the cause as it is most likey to point to other issues that are related, and which may be different for different causes, resulting in the need for a different remedy.
I have found this issue especially difficult to work with in the repertory - and also in practice - short of restricting the diet drasticslly.
It also helps to be sure your patient is aware of all the places to watch out for gluten as it takes so very little to trigger a very damaging and painful response, whether the villi damage is caused by celiacs, allergy, or stress damage.
For example:
* Glue on envelopes and stamps is gluten
* Wine is usually "fined" with gluten - and wooden wine barrels are usually sealed with gluten - you need to write to a vineyard to know which is gluten free wine. (eg. Australian YellowTail red wines are all gluten free and some whites, but not eg the chardonnay and some other whites).
* "Hydrolysed protein" in shampoos, soaps, hair conditioners, makeup, hand creams, etc, is hydrolysed gluten.
* Deep fried potato chips/crisps and other items, may be fried in the same oil as breaded chicken or whatever.
* Any "natural flavor" in food ingredient lists, may be gluten.
Most celiacs have learned these and other sources the hard way, but missing even one, is all it takes to make matters progressively worse from repeated inadvertent exposure.
As damage progresses, and the villi are worn down physically more and more, other things besides gluten become indigestile and set off reactions.
I think you are smart to address this as part of the issue, whatever the issue:-) It has a body-wide effect on the system.
As with many words, Americans have a different spelling - celiacs - search under both. I often trip up with US spelling. Radar has rubrics containing celiac and rubrics containing coeliac
But look also for rubrics to do with symptoms, "after eating", in the food disagrees section, and inflammation of the small intestine.
Namaste,
Irene
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