New Delhi: Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu has recently opened up on about being bullied for gaining weight. She also revealed that she has celiac disease.
She opened up about it while speaking about women’s rights in connection with the hijab row.
Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu was crowned Miss Universe 2021, with this she became third entrant from India to win the prestigious title after 21 years.
The beauty pageant winner also talked about her personal struggles, on being slammed on social media for gaining weight.
What is celiac disease?
Celiac disease, is a digestive condition induced by an immunological reactivity to gluten that is aberrant. Gluten-sensitive enteropathy, nontropical sprue, Sprue all these terms used to describe Celiac disease. Harnaaz also talked about her gluten allergy and how her body changes when she travels to different countries.
According to the experts, celiac disease or in other word this condition can result to both weight gain and weight loss to patients – something that happened with Harnaaz as well.
Symptoms of celiac disease?
# Bloating, fatigue
# Iron deficiency anemia,
# Nausea and vomiting
# Headaches and fatigue
# Joint pain, stiffness and Dermatitis herpetiformis.
How does celiac disease affect patients health?
This is an incurable condition, where if a celiac patient eats something with gluten, an immune response is triggered in the small intestine. This can also result to damaging the lining of the organ and trigger malabsorption of some nutrients.
Treatment of celiac disease:
In most of the cases, experts recommend the patients suffering from celiac disease from abstaining from gluten intake to treat the symptoms of the condition and prevent long-term health complications as well.