Is There a Cure?
By now, if any of the symptoms I've mentioned sound familiar, you're probably wondering if there are any treatments for coeliac disease. So far, the only solution is to go gluten-free, as researchers have yet to develop a cure. Image- Nick Youngson Coeliac Disease was first written about by a Greek man named Aretaeus of Cappadocia around 250AD. He used the word ‘koiliakos’ meaning ‘suffering in the bowels’ to describe his patients. Centuries later, when the condition was named, the term coeliac was derived from this Greek. And, just in case you've ever been confused by the spelling, this is also believed to be why Europe uses ‘coeliac’ whereas the U.S. remove the ‘o’, spelling it ‘celiac’. Thorough research didn't begin until towards the end of the 19th century, as by this time gluten-containing grains and therefore the disease had spread around the globe. It was mostly conducted in the U.K. by scientists such as Gee or Haas. Various scientist proposed diets...