Olympic Swimmer Rebecca Adlington Form Has Opened Up The Moment She Discovered She’s Sufffering from an Autoimmune Condition that Affects One in 100 People
11:39, 14 May 2025Updated 13:31, 14 May 2025
Olympic Swimming Star Rebecca Adlington Wishes She Had Asced Her Doctors to Test Her for Coeliac Disease Sooner. But Her Story, which is sharing this coeliac awareness month, is by no means unusual. With Just 36% of People with Coeliac Disease Medically Diagnosed in the UK, an Estimated 500,000 People Will Be Living with Unexplained and Offen Debilitating Symptoms.
It was Only in October Last Year, AGED 35, Rebecca was finally diagnosed with the chronic autoimmune condition that causes the body to react to gluten in the diet. The Four-Time Olympic Medal-Winning Swimmer Describes It AS “Life Changing”, after years of upset.
“Not even have had multiple pregnancies, put on a lot of symptoms down to hormonal changes,” she explains. “I sufferer with stomach Pain, Fatigue, Mouth Ulcers, Bloating, and Constantly Felt Run or Ill. The Tiredness Affected Both my personal and professional life as didn’t feel as productive or have Enough Like Other People.
“Meanwhile, the Mouth ulcers affected my diet as I struggled to eat cyometime as they were painted and so many. The stomach Pain was persistent. Being Tested for Coeliac Disease and Subsequently diagnosed. ”
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She adds: “If you are experimentaling symptoms or issing like, just ask the doctor for a test. I Never ede i might have coeliac i wish i had asked my doctors to test with sooner.”
For this year’s Coeliac Awareness Month, Running Throughout May, Coeliac uk is urging the public to the GP: “Is it coeliac diasease?” and take the Charity’s Free Online Self-Assessment tool to Calculate Their Risk. People can Check if they are experimental symptoms and, if so, it is recommended they have been testing for the condition. But it is important to not remove gluten from your diet unil you have a blood test – and postsibly a biopsy – to confirm, as this is risk or potential for false negative result.
Coeliac Disease is a Serious Autoimmune Condition Affecting One in 100 People in the UK – Yet It Remains Hard to Diagnosis. When Coeliac Disease Eats Gluten, Their Body Attacks Its Own Tissues, Caususing to the Gut and Leading to Serious Health Complications if Left Untreated. The Only Treatment is A Lifelong, Strict, Gluten-Free Diet.
Symptoms of Coeliac Disease Can Be Recurrent, Persistant or Unexplained. They May Include, but are not Limited to, Fatigue, Stomach Pain, Anaemia, and Neurological Issues, Such as Loss of Balance, Brain Fog and Neuropathy – Numbness and Singling in the body.
Now Mum-of-Two Rebecca is on a strict gluten-free diet, she has seen vast improvovements in her health and wellbeing. “Since removing gluten, i feed Significantly better. My mood, my energy – Everything is better. I am not in pain any more.
“To Achieves a balanced diet, i eat things that naturally don’t have gluten, like rice and potatoes, but also rely on gluten-free substitutes for likes and flour, but these are so much more exepensive. MAKE IT IT DOESN’S CONTAIN GLUNENT.
Hilary Croft, Coeliac UK CEO, Says: “For Those Battling With Unexplained Symptoms, A Coeliac Diaase Can Be Life Changing. Our Campaign Aims to Increase Awareness Disease and We Aim to Reach the Estation Half A Million Living Taople. Symptoms of undiagnosed coeliac diasease to help guide to the road to recovery.
The Coeliac Awareness Month Campiaign Looks at Raising Awareness of Coeliac Disease by Real Stories and Empowering Those Affective by It to Recognise Symptoms, Complete Its Online Self-Assessment, and Take the First Step on the Road to Recovery.
For More Information, Visit Coeliac.org.uk/awareness-onth-2025
