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Pain in the hair and hair loss - symptom on Celiac disease ?


Krasimir

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Krasimir Newbie

I am a man of 32 years.

At 18, I got my first pain in scalp and hair loss. I started looking for the problem and I was with many doctors . No one found the cause The pain was so strong like "hair is burning" .
I noticed that when I eat a lot of carbohydrates I had severe pain and most hair loss . I have a same problems when i drinking alcohol. I stop everything.

The burning in hair was so intense that I poured cold water on it ...

I didn't know about gluten then, so I decided to stop eating carbs . The hair immediately began to grow.

It was hard to live without any carbs. I started reading and learned about Celiac and gluten.

I did a gluten test, but it turns out I'm not allergic to gluten.

Some have had such pain in the hair/burning scalp from gluten ?


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Darcy Martinez Apprentice

Burning hair and scalp are a symptom of high blood sugar.  High blood sugar is a symptom of celiac disease.  The blood tests for celiac are inaccurate. get retested.

trents Grand Master

Kasimir, can you be more specific about the test you did for gluten. What kind of test was it? What is the name of it? There are some blood antibody tests specifically designed for diagnosing celiac disease. https://celiac.org/about-celiac-disease/screening-and-diagnosis/screening/ These tests detect antibodies that are produced by the inflammation in the small bowel being cause by celiac disease. But if you have already stopped consuming gluten it will render the tests invalid since inflammation is no longer happening.

Celiac disease is not an allergy and therefore cannot be diagnosed by allergy testing. It is an autoimmune disease that damages the villi that line the small bowel. The villi are responsible for absorbing the nutrients from the food we eat. When the villi become significantly damaged by untreated celiac disease we begin to suffer nutrient deficiency symptoms, no matter how well we eat. Hair loss can be a symptom of nutrient deficiency.

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