Food containing gluten include wheat, barley and rye.
There are no available statistics on the number of patients suffering from non-coeliac gluten sensitivity (NCGS) in Malaysia because there’s no such test currently to find out if someone is sensitive to gluten, said consultant gastroenterologist and physician Dr P. Shanthi.
“But it is real and there are papers published by the scientific community,” she said in an interview.
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