{"id":441,"date":"2010-03-29T21:13:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T01:13:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-26T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T15:05:13","slug":"celiac-disease-or-giardiasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/celiac-disease-c\/celiac-disease-or-giardiasis\/","title":{"rendered":"Celiac Disease or Giardiasis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Celiac disease symptoms may appear similar to giardiasis symptoms in some cases.\u00a0 This can lead to a diagnosis that may correctly catch giardia but miss celiac disease.<\/p>\n

According to some anecdotal evidence, a mild case of giardia may trigger celiac disease<\/a>.\u00a0 In this case, your doctor may treat the giardia but miss the celiac disease.<\/p>\n

It may be that the opposite works better: treat the celiac disease and the giardia may take care of itself.<\/p>\n

Giardia Description<\/h2>\n

Giardia is a single celled organism.\u00a0 It may exist as an active trophozoite, which spends its time swims around in your gut, multiplying and causing trouble.<\/p>\n

At other stages in its life cycle, it take the form of a cyst, a sort of inert package that can leave the body in feces, infect water, and be taken in by another host.<\/p>\n

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The spread of this disease is frequently blamed on beavers in some areas of the world.\u00a0 In these places, it is called \u2018beaver fever\u2019.\u00a0 I think this is unfair, since it is almost certainly humans that infected the beavers in the first place.<\/p>\n

Giardiasis Symptoms<\/h2>\n
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Giardia usually has the following symptoms about one or two weeks after infection:<\/p>\n

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