Gluten sensitivity is a chameleon – like disease.
The condition’s ability to hide behind a variety of symptoms makes it difficult – but not impossible – to diagnose correctly. And, of course, if it’s not diagnosed correctly it cannot be treated correctly – that is, with a totally gluten – free diet.
Furthermore, incorrect diagnosis can lead to prescribing un-necessary and potentially harmful medicines inevitably complicating the situation.
Misdiagnosis, because of gluten sensitivity’s ability to masquerade as – and, in some cases, piggyback on – the symptoms of other diseases and disorders, can have devastating effects. Not only are the people who are misdiagnosed relegated to “living with” a disease ( when they may be able to be free of it ), but living with this condition can lead to severe consequences – such as the irreversible crippling of rheumatoid arthritis, bone loss and breakage, infection or even death.
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