Symptom List
General
Adults: lassitude, severe weakness & wasting,
depression, fatigue, irritability, general malnutrition
with or without weight loss
Children: irritability, fretfulness, emotional withdrawal
or excessive dependence, nausea, anorexia, malnutrition
with protruberant abdomen, muscle wasting of buttocks,
thighs and proximal arms; with or without vomiting and
diarrhea
Skin
Aphthous stomatitis (Mouth ulcers - recurrent)
Angular cheilitis (cracked sores in corners of the mouth)
Atopic dermatitis (persistent or recurrent)
Dermatitis herpetiformis
Alopecia areata (especially alopecia universalis)
Melanosis (chloasma bronzium)
Erythema nodosum
Skeletal
Osteoporosis/osteopenia
Dental enamel defects
Short stature
Arthritis or arthralgia
Bone & Joint pain
Hematologic
Anemia
B12
deficiency
Vitamin K deficency (causes bleeding & bruising)
Leukopenia, coagulopathy and thrombocytosis.
Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)
Gastrointestinal
Diarrhea (small intestinal type), early diarrhea occurs
with infrequent, large, watery, foul stools; later diarrhea
occurs more frequently
Constipation, with occasional obstipation and
pseudo-obstruction
Lactose intolerance
Anorexia, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and bloating
Pancreatitis, hepatitis, lymphoma
Reproductive
Delayed
puberty
Infertility (men and women)
Miscarriages
Amenorrhea [no menstrual cycle]
Delayed Menstruation
Impotence
Neurological
Seizures, with or without occipital calcification
Unexplained neuropathic illnesses, including ataxia and
peripheral neuropathies
Dementia
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (extreme tiredness, myalgias,
cognitive dysfunction)
Anxiety
Depression
Dementia
Cancers
Increase
risk of:
Small bowel lymphoma/enteropathy associated T-cell
lymphoma.
Small bowel adenocarcinoma
Large bowel carcinoma
Hodgkins lymphoma
Oropharyngeal cancer
Primary liver cancers.
Other
associated conditions
Down syndrome
IgA nephropathy
Fibrosing alveolitis of the lung
Hyposplenism, with atrophy of the spleen
Sources:
Detecting Celiac Disease in Your Patients
by Harold T. Pruessner, M.D.,,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -
Celiac Disease Center
National Library of Medicine and National
Inst. of Health - Celiac Disease