<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> I keep seeing questions about the possible connection between thyroid problems and celiac, so I thought this might be interesting. Celiac disease linked to autoimmune thyroid disease A relatively high percentage of patients with autoimmune thyroiditis have celiac disease, Italian investigators report. http://gastroenterology.medscape.com/19548.rhtml <a href="http://gastroenterology.medscape.com/19548.rhtml"> A peek at the findings, reported in the February issue of Digestive Diseases and Sciences, show that the prevalence of celiac disease was 3.4% in patients with autoimmune thyroiditis, and 0.6% and 0.25% among the two control groups. Not a high incidence but enough to establish a definite connection statistically. Moreover, the study found an association between untreated celiac disease, gluten intake and autoimmune disorders. The researchers write, "We believe that undiagnosed celiac disease can cause other disorders by switching on some as yet unknown immunological mechanism. Untreated celiac patients produce organ-specific autoantibodies." -vance