<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> 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 ============================================================================== Nathan D. Justus AT&T Bell Labs, W. Long Branch, NJ,USA [log in to unmask] Disclaimer: I do not speak for AT&T