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Article: Hidden changed illness that my entire life; Coeliac disease sufferer Christine has to be very careful of what she eats.
- Article from:
- Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
- Article date:
- April 29, 2009
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WHEN former school crossing warden Christine McInnes injured her back she triggered a sequence of events that led to a life-changing discovery.
An x-ray of her spine showed that her bones were thinning at an alarming rate and that she had osteoporosis.
Blood tests taken at the same time revealed the reason why she was losing bone mass. She had coeliac disease, a serious autoimmune condition caused by eating gluten.
If undiagnosed and untreated - sufferers need to avoid gluten-containing foods - coeliac disease is known to cause a wide range of ...