Changes in Intestinal Permeability 4 Hours After Gluten Challenge
Celiac Disease, Wheat Hypersensitivity, Gluten Sensitivity
About this trial
This is an interventional other trial for Celiac Disease focused on measuring Randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial, Oral food challenge
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria for subjects with Celiac Disease:
- Biopsy proven celiac disease diagnosed at least 2 years prior to recruitment
- Attest to following a gluten free diet to the best of their ability
- Quiescent symptoms on a gluten free diet
- Negative tissue transglutaminase at time of recruitment (to be collected with baseline blood work)
- A prior endoscopy with small bowel biopsies reviewed by a gastrointestinal pathologist revealing healing
Inclusion Criteria for subjects with Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity:
- Meet diagnostic consensus criteria as defined by Ludvigsson et al in "The Oslo definitions for coeliac disease and related terms"
- Attest to following a gluten free diet to the best of their ability
- Quiescent symptoms on a gluten free diet
- Prior negative evaluation for celiac disease (including tissue transglutaminase IgA with total IgA or small bowel biopsies)
- If subjects have had a small bowel biopsies revealing increased intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs), they will be reviewed as a separate subgroup
Inclusion Criteria for Normal Subjects:
- No gastrointestinal diagnosis (reflux, eosinophilic esophagitis, inflammatory bowel disease, or irritable bowel syndrome)
- No gastrointestinal symptoms (diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, weight loss)
- No family history of celiac disease
- Will not be required to have a baseline biopsy
Exclusion Criteria:
- Tobacco use
- Symptomatic coronary disease
- Active, severe pulmonary disease
- Baseline oxygen requirement
- Coagulopathy (INR>1.5)
- Mastocytosis
- Active H. pylori infection
- Treated celiac disease with neutrophilia or eosinophilia secondary to infection
- Diabetes (type 1 and type 2)
- Crohn's disease or Ulcerative colitis
- Microscopic colitis
- Dermatitis herpetiformis
- Gastroparesis
- Pregnant women
Subjects exposed to the following medications during their respective time frames will be excluded:
- NSAIDs (24 hours)
- Leukotriene inhibitors (24 hours)
- Mast cell stabilizers (24 hours)
- Benzodiazepines (24 hours)
- H2 blockers (2 days)
- H1 blockers (7 days)
- Steroids (systemic or topically active within gastrointestinal tract) (30 days)
- Topical steroids (14 days)
- Intermittent (up to once weekly) tranquilizer (trazodone, doxepin) use (7 days)
- Chronic tricyclic antidepressant or tranquilizer use (trazodone, doxepin) Use of these medications will also be prohibited during the study duration (AAAAI and AAOA).
Sites / Locations
- Mayo Clinic
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Arm 4
Arm 5
Arm 6
Active Comparator
Placebo Comparator
Active Comparator
Placebo Comparator
Active Comparator
Placebo Comparator
Normal Subjects, Gluten Drink
Normal Subjects, Placebo Drink
Celiac Subjects, Gluten Drink
Celiac Subjects, Placebo Drink
Gluten Sensitivity, Gluten Drink
Gluten Sensitivity, Placebo Drink
Normal subjects will drink a solution containing 6 grams of gluten one time.
Normal subjects will drink a solution without gluten one time.
Subjects with celiac disease will drink a solution containing 6 grams of gluten one time.
Subjects with celiac disease will drink a solution without gluten one time.
Subjects with non-celiac gluten sensitivity will drink a solution containing 6 grams of gluten one time.
Subjects with non-celiac gluten sensitivity will drink a solution without gluten one time.