| Infertility and miscarriage - Susanna's story |
07 May 2010 |
Celiac Disease is a form of Gluten intolerance. And for many decades it has been associated with inability to fall pregnant and, unfortunately, with miscarriage.
This makes a strong argument for testing all women who suffer a miscarriage for Gluten intolerance. There is even a case to screen all women who are considering pregnancy for Gluten intolerance. Why run the risk of losing a precious baby? Food sensitivity is so easy to cure!
Especially when the cure needs no drugs, just a changed diet.
How do you find out if you have food intolerance?
An Elimination Diet will give you PROOF of food intolerance, or proof that you don't have food intolerance.
We have simplified the Elimination diet into the Detection Diet. It's easy, needs no drugs or doctors appointments, and even better - it's guaranteed to find your food intolerance.
Read the story of Susanna, below, who found out too late that she was Gluten intolerant. She had been tested for Celiac Disease (which is just one form of Gluten intolerance). If she had been put on an elimination diet instead, it would have identified her Gluten intolerance.
Then the Gluten-free diet which she adopted later would have saved her from two tragic miscarriages.
The Case of Susanna Lohiniemi
Even with attentive medical care and a history of miscarriage - Susanna Lohiniemi's Gluten intolerance went undiagnosed for more than a decade.
Her symptoms were flu-like (headache, muscular aches), she was always exhausted, had mild iron deficiency, irregular menstruation, slight hair loss, flatulence and nausea. For ten years her doctors did not suspect Gluten intolerance.
This was despite her mother being treated successfully for dermatitis herpetiformis (yet another form of Gluten intolerance) by having a Gluten-free diet.
Susanna's results for the usual Celiac blood tests were negative so doctors thought her unlikely to have Gluten intolerance. Susanna's account goes on:
" . . . for a patient with Celiac Disease to be slightly overweight and in good physical condition wasn't typical, they said. I miscarried twice in one year.
'It happens', they said." What they failed to pick up was that lots of cases of Gluten intolerance are missed when doctors use a method that only detects Celiac Disease.
Susanna was eventually diagnosed via a biopsy ordered by a temporary locum doctor who became curious and reviewed her file. The ensuing treatment of a Gluten-free diet brought immediate relief from symptoms (3 weeks) and a whole new life: no longer tired and the headaches disappeared. She went on to have two children via uncomplicated and successful pregnancies.
Video: How to find out your food intolerance
References- 1. An inappropriate immune response. Sollid, Ludvig M. and Knut E. Lundin: Lancet Volume 358, Supplement 1, 2001.
- 2. Association of adult coeliac disease with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: a case-control study in patients fulfilling ROME II criteria referred to secondary care. Sanders et al. Lancet 2001; Volume 358: 1504 -1508.
- 3. Tricky to find, hard to treat, impossible to cure. Susanna Lohiniemi: Lancet Volume 358, Supplement 1, 2001.
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