<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> I've been reading the list since last January and have recently learned that yet another person who has been diagnosed as celiac once was given the medication FLAGYL in order to treat amoebic dysentery ( while living or traveling extensively in India.) I was given FLAGYL by a well meaning doctor in Mexico when we were living there in 1969-70. The necessity for this powerful medicine was amoebic dysentery. Shortly after that my problems with what was eventually diagnosed as celiac disease began to be the dominating factor of my life. There is another member of our little celiac group in Ithaca, NY, who tells the same story about his foreign travels, dysentery and FLAGYL - all leading eventually to CELIAC disease. I wonder if there are others on the list who have the same histories. Perhaps there is something about FLAGYL that the USDA didn't catch when they were doing their research. It would only take a minute for any reader who has taken FLAGYL or streptomycine in order to combat an extensive intestinal infection picked up in foreign travel and has subsequently been diagnosed as CELIAC to send a note to that effect to the whole list, or just to me and I'll make a count and report back. If FLAGYL is exacerbating or just plain causing celiac disease, let's make sure it doen't keep happening. Gayle Kennedy [log in to unmask]