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It is certainly possible for crohn's patient to have certain foods worsen
their symptoms.  Crohn's disease may be almost indistinguishable from
celiac disease in certain circumstances and may even occur in the same
patient. certainly it is preferable to have celiac disease as its
treatment is more sucessful than crohn's.  CD has been diagnosed in some
patients mistakenly diagnosed as Crohn's disease.  Gastroenterologists
tend to be more aware of crohn's disease than of CD and there may be a
familiarity-bias involved.  Joe Murray

On Thu, 22 Dec 1994, Bryan Carpenter wrote:

> That's interesting.  I've been diagnosed as having Crohn's disease for
> several years (a little tentatively---it took the doctors a long time
> to make up their mind).  A couple of years ago I started experimenting
> with diet.  I noticed that cutting down bread consumption seemed to
> improve my health.  That was before I knew anything about gluten-free
> diets or Celiac disease, and it seemed strange and unlikely at the time.
>
> At some stage I found out about Celiac diets, and cut out wheat.  This
> *seemed* to eliminate most of the Crohn's symptoms.
>
> Is it possible for Crohn's sufferers to be gluten sensitive?