Fortunately, following agluten-free dietcan help restore any hair you may have lost while undiagnosed or still eating gluten.
Malnutrition can cause hair loss, along with a host of other problems.
Once you fix any vitamin deficiencies related to being malnourished, your hair should grow back.
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Celiac disease is also related to other autoimmune diseases, conditions where your immune system attacks your body.
In general, having one autoimmune disease makes you more likely to develop a second autoimmune condition.
Full-body hair loss is known as alopecia universalis.
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Alopecia usually begins in childhood and affects both genders equally.
Like with celiac disease, there is no cure for alopecia.
Since then, other reports have linked celiac disease with alopecia areata.
Even in people without celiac disease, alopecia can be very unpredictable.
Sometimes the hair simply grows back by itself.
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