Gluten allergy symptoms can be a very serious indicator of an underlying condition: celiac disease. If you are reading this than it is quite likely you are concerned about your body's reaction to your consuming gluten.

Despite the term gluten allergy symptom, it is important to recognize that celiac disease does not usually manifest allergic reactions like the kind we associate with hay fever or peanut allergies. Gluten intolerance is in fact more systemic. It is a condition that will wear your digestive tract down over time.

As your body overreacts to the gluten in its system, your immune response slowly kills off the villi in your intestines. These villi are tiny hairs which act to capture and help absorb the nutrients from your food. When they die off, you are less capable of digesting and processing your food and the nutrients in it.

Gluten allergy symptoms often begin mild, with intestinal discomfort such as bloating and flatulence. Then over time they both increase in number and type as well as become more severe. Intestinal discomfort, for example, would go from bloating and flatulence to constipation and diarrhea. Other common gluten allergy symptoms include headaches, fatigue and a lowered immune system (you become sick more easily and more often).

Later stages of celiac disease are similar to severe malnutrition, only people don't think they could be experiencing malnutrition because they believe they're eating plenty of healthy food. However, if you are unknowingly gluten intolerant and you are eating foods which contain gluten, no matter how healthy you eat you can become malnourished.

So it is vital that if you suspect you may be gluten intolerant you must immediately cut gluten from your diet. This may be difficult at first, but you will soon learn that many major grocery chains and manufacturers are becoming more and more helpful to people with gluten intolerance. You will find that dealing with your gluten allergy symptoms is easier than you initially expect.