<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> As an infant I was fed whole milk which was added to butter and white flour mixed and heated in a pan. I had dark circles [unusual for a child of Irish and English descent I was told] under my eyes and was painfully thin until I was 17 years old when I went away to college. There I relaxed and gained weight. Went from 114 to 135 [5'81/2"] When my first child was born I began to have allergic symptoms. By the time, four years later, the third child was born I was a full-fledged allergic asthmatic. Last February, I was "muscle-tested" and told that I was born without the enzyme that digests gluten and to go off wheat, rye, oats and barley immediately. A few weeks later I was told to avoid vaso-amines [things like pineapples, and apples and tomatoes and avocados and shrimp and many more foods.] I still don't know what a vaso-amine is however.... The chronic and severe allergic asthma is gone!!! Allergies to animals, dust, molds, ragweed are unknown to me for one year!!! I lost 30 lbs and now have the figure I always knew could be mine. Now my question. Since my symptoms do not include wasting or diarrhea only allergic asthma, do I have celiac disease? Is it something else? Does it matter? By the way, we have two beautiful male adult cats and occasionally when I eat a tomato or a banana or chocolate, my eyes itch. Am I here under false pretenses? :^) Pam in Auburn, NY