By the way, doctor: Can I go back to eating wheat once my celiac disease is under control?
Currently, the only way to treat celiac disease is to eliminate gluten from the diet. The answer to your question is yes, the villi do recover. But once celiac disease develops, the sensitivity to gluten is there for life. Even after a long hiatus, eating gluten again will trigger an immune response that can reinjure the villi.
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