<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> "Had we not, contrary to our doctor's wishes, put our daughter on a gluten free diet..." The sentence pulled me almost out of my chair. Why is it that so many medical professionals are against trying a gluten free diet? How can we reach them? And how do we convince them that it IS possible to just try the diet rather than putting kids (or adults, for that matter) thru the biopsy? Much cheaper, and no side effects that I can think of. If gluten free removes the symptoms, what more do they want?? I put myself on a gluten free diet and solved my own probems after years of going from doctor to doctor and having all the tests they prescribed - which did NOT include a biopsy. Then, when I returned to the MD three months later and said I had found the solution to my constant diarrhea, he wanted me to return to eating wheat so that I could have a biopsy. What sense did that make? I refused. The irony is that the doctor's wife has celiac disease! Does anyone have an answer to these questions? Is it only that MD's egos are involved in finding the solution? Are they taught in med school that Celiac disease is so rare they never consider it? How can there be almost 600 of us who have the equipment to get on this list if it so rare. I am not a statistician, but think how many don't have computers or are not on line or do not kow the list exists. Think how many are still searching for a diagnosis... Just venting my frustrations. Surely others feel the same. Gayle K.