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My husband was diagnosed with celiac at age 53 some years ago. Before
that he smoked for years and, though trying valiantly on a number of
occasions, was unable to stop. Every time he tried (and he went a couple
of months on one occasion) he would bloat up, develop horrible gas and
an extremely noisy gut (all classic gluten poisoning symptoms for him).
The doctor thought he was "swallowing air" and gave anti-gas pills,
which didn't help.

Well, eventually he did stop because he was feeling so terrible and his
system then really took a dive with extreme weight loss, etc., and,
before he was diagnosed (he was undergoing various tests and waiting for
an appt with the gastroenterologist), he had a heart attack. While in
hospital he was endoscopy diagnosed with celiac, and on the diet gained
5 lbs per week for 3 months ...

In any case, what I wanted to raise is that we strongly suspect, looking
back and piecing things together, that there is some relationship
between nicotine and celiac symptoms. In his case, nicotine seems to
have neutralized some of the symptoms of the disease. Has anyone else
any experience of this?

Mary Maude

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