Effects of a Low Nickel, Lactose and Gluten Free Diet on Irritable Bowel Syndrome
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 January 2025 | Viewed by 1215
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is known to be a common condition in which affected people report recurrent attacks of abdominal pain and bloating with changes in the shape or frequency of stools. It is equally common observation that there is a close relationship between the ingestion of certain foods and the appearance of these symptoms. In fact, up to 80% of IBS patients identify food as a possible trigger for their symptoms.
Immune-mediated reactions (food allergies), adverse reactions to foods containing gluten (celiac disease, CD; non-celiac gluten sensitivity, NCGS), adverse reactions to foods containing nickel (nickel allergic contact mucositis, Ni-ACM), enzyme deficiencies (intolerance to lactose), and disorders linked to the ingestion of fermentable oligo-, di-, and monosaccharides and polyols (FODMAPS) can be, collectively, identified as adverse food reactions (AFRs).
Although the etiology and pathogenesis of numerous AFRs are already known, those of other AFRs, such as NCGS and Ni-ACM, are not yet fully defined. In the absence of serological biomarkers, diagnosis is currently based only on resolution of symptoms after gluten or nickel withdrawal. Recent studies have suggested using a patch test of the oral mucosa to gluten and nickel as a tool capable of highlighting specific reactivity to foods containing nickel and gluten. The incomplete knowledge of the etiopathogenesis of these clinical conditions as well as the absence of a gold standard for their diagnosis make the picture difficult to understand.
In this Special Issue, we would like to invite you to delve deeper into these increasingly emerging clinical issues. The objective is to better define the different clinical pictures and to research the probably different causes of IBS to establish more appropriate and specific therapeutic strategies.
Dr. Antonio Picarelli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- irritable bowel syndrome
- celiac disease
- non-celiac gluten sensitivity
- adverse reactions to foods containing nickel
- intolerance to lactose
- FODMAPS
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