Helina, Majjda, Shamila, Aminah (dietetic assistants) are promoting Coeliac Awareness Week - so drop by their information stands in our main entrances of our hospitals.

This year the focus is on looking at the wider set of symptoms beyond the more common gut related issues to help 'join the dots' and speed up the path to diagnosis.

Coeliac disease is an autoimmune condition affecting 1 in 100 people in the UK. Currently only 36% of them are medically diagnosed leaving an estimated 500,000 living with undiagnosed coeliac disease and the risk of developing long term health complications.

Our mission for Coeliac Awareness Week 2023 is to highlight the lesser known symptoms of coeliac disease and to do this we put a call out to our community to ask you to come forward to share your stories. Find out more about the incredible group of people who came forward to share their coeliac disease journey with us, following their experience living with some of the debilitating and lesser known symptoms of coeliac disease.

These symptoms include: extreme fatigue, persistent mouth ulcers, unexplained neurological symptoms such as ataxia and peripheral neuropathy, unexplained anaemia, unexplained subfertility (both male and female) and recurrent miscarriage.

To find out more about coeliac week please follow the link- Coeliac Awareness Week - Coeliac UK

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