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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 28, 2018 (HealthDay News) — For patients with gluten neuropathy, following a strict gluten-free diet is associated with significantly reduced odds of peripheral neuropathic pain, according to a study scheduled for presentation at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, to be held from April 21 to 27 in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Panagiotis Zis, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, and colleagues recruited 60 patients with gluten neuropathy attending a specialist gluten\/neurology clinic. Fifty-five percent of the patients had pain.<\/p>\n
The researchers observed no significant differences in terms of age, gender, neuropathy severity, and neuropathy type for patients with painful and not painful gluten neuropathy. The likelihood of being on a strict gluten-free diet was significantly increased for patients with painless gluten neuropathy (55.6 versus 21.2 percent). Patients with painful gluten neuropathy had a significantly worse Mental Health Index-5 (MHI-5) score at presentation. Following a strict gluten-free diet was associated with 88.7 percent reduced odds of peripheral neuropathic pain after adjustment for age, gender, and MHI-5.<\/p>\n
“These findings are exciting because it might mean that a relatively simple change in diet could help alleviate painful symptoms tied to gluten neuropathy,” Zis said in a statement. “While our study shows an association between a self-reported gluten-free diet and less pain, it does not show that one causes the other.”<\/p>\n
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