<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> First off thanks for all the responses to my concern about Pert Plus Dandruff shampoo... I am now convinced this was the culprit, all but one of the responses said they had the same troubles with shampoo not nessesarily Pert... I do have one more thing to say about DH... I have been on Dapsone since my diagnosis in the 80's who knows when that was I guess I should find out the official date... Anyhow, I just recently had a HUGE scare since I had not been following the diet for about 4 years eating all the gluten I could find just to build up a sort of tolerance. Well, following some bad pains I was brought ot the emergency by my wife, found out I had an ulcer and while they were down there looking at the tear they decided to let some students have a look at my celiac. When I woke up I had two doctors looking down at me with a look I can only describe as sympathetic, they told me that there were growths all over the inside of my stomach and severe damage caused by gluten ingestion. Let me tell you something here, up until that day I felt as though I had beaten this thing called Celiac. If you are like me ignoring the diet for whatever reason.. it's enormous cost factor, the inconvenience or just plain ignorant.. mabey even in denial that you are even a Celiac.. let me assure you nothing is scarier than finding out that you have a 50 to 100 percent chance of dying of Cancer if you don't start following your diet... Anyhow, imediately following this discovery I went to my Pharmacist to find out some more info about this Dapsone aka Avlosulfon that I had been taking for years. Turns out the medication itself has an ingredient called GLUTEN... yes, i'm not kidding you... if you have DH and have been taking Dapsone it might be a good idea to contact your Pharmacist to find out what is in your pill... for the mean time I am still taking the pill to control the DH since I have a bad case of it.. But on Tuesday i'm going to ask them to search for an alternative company that makes Dapsone. If they can't find an alternative then I may be taking a few months leave of absence from my workplace to try to ride out the storm so to speak and let the DH take it's course till I am totally gluten free... It's going to be horrible but I have got to get myself 100% gluten free... I have a wife and three kids to think about.. I want to be there for them... I am not trying to scare anyone, but please understand that you may think you have beaten it by ingesting loads of gluten, but when the pains start and your doctor tells you what they see inside you too will have a change of heart... your better off to learn from someone who has been there... Previously in denial [log in to unmask]