A gluten free diet may benefit many diagnosed with lupus.<\/p>\n
The symptoms of celiac disease, not to be confused with a gluten allergy<\/a>, can be similar to lupus.<\/p>\n Both diseases are hard to pin down, having multiple and varied symptoms<\/a> that can be quite different for each patient.<\/p>\n Both diseases can effect all organs in the body. So if you have a rash<\/a>, fatigue<\/a>, and poor weight gain as a child, you may be diagnosed with lupus, and that may be the correct diagnosis.<\/p>\n However, a surprising number of people diagnosed with lupus are actually gluten intolerant, meaning they have celiac disease<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Given the large number of varied symptoms caused by a gluten allergy, it could be that someone diagnosed with lupus is celiac, or has gluten a gluten allergy, or does in fact have lupus.<\/p>\n Some studies indicate that over 20% of patients diagnosed with lupus really have celiac<\/a> disease. That\u2019s a lot of people being treated with toxic pharmaceutical drugs, yet are still sick. These people will improve, probably completely, by eliminating gluten from their diet.<\/p>\n Of course it is likely that some people have both lupus and celiac or gluten allergy, so don\u2019t rule out both.<\/p>\n So if you\u2019re diagnosed with lupus, should you cut out gluten from your diet?<\/p>\n I recommend that you do. I also recommend that you get tested for celiac.<\/p>\n Although celiac has \u2018classic\u2019 symptoms’, not everyone with this disease is classic. You might be one of them.<\/p>\n In the case of a gluten allergy, there is no classic set of symptoms.<\/p>\n