Study Suggests Link Between Celiac Disease and Anorexia Nervosa
Patients who are diagnosed with both illnesses
Patients with both disorders can have a hard time. Not only does an eating disorder ruin a person’s relationship with food, but it can also leave him or her with a crippling anxiety every time he or she is faced with situations wherein food is involved. Pair this with an autoimmune disease and he or she becomes warier and even more stressed out. Sometimes, a person who is diagnosed with both will not even eat anything at all anymore!
Because gluten is not allowed for celiac disease patients, their food choices are even more limited. This makes adjustments hard, and constant fear for weight gain can be too much if they are introduced to new kinds of foods. It ends up with these patients worsening their eating disorder because their diagnosis of celiac disease becomes a convenient reason that they could use.