<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> I am confident there is a direct link to the bodies malabsorbtion and the immune systems inability to fight colds and such. Our 2 yr old is the celiac and last winter (before diagnosis) was terrible. He always was getting a cold/flu/anything from who knows where. We kept him out of the nursery at church to keep him well and he still ended up sick more than anyone else we know. His ear infection took a second or third kind of antibiotic before it finally cleared up. Funny thing too was we could tell that there was something about the one antibiotic that they gave him that "didn't agree with his digestion". Only months after the fact we realize they must have had gluten in them. Tim Meadows [log in to unmask] Warsaw, IN