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I've been following the thread of "Does intestinal infection/use of
strong antibiotics such as FLAGYL cause Celiac?" and I'm wondering:
 
Do these things cause celiac or just cause _symptoms_ to show?  If a Celiac
ingests gluten, destruction of the intestinal lining occurs (or at least,
this is how I understand it).  But not everyone shows symptoms all the
time.  So perhaps you do indeed show _symptoms_ because of some traumatic
gut event (like salmonella, lots of antibiotics or whatever) but you may
have had the disease all the time, only it was working silently.
 
Am I off base with this?
 
Nathan
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Nathan D. Justus                        AT&T Bell Labs, W. Long Branch, NJ,USA
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