<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> I just wanted to add one other aspect to this problem. Besides the fact that it's "no fun" for a doc to diagnose a disease that is STRICTLY diet controlled, they have no one to send us to for diet information. Hospital nutritionists and dieticians don't have a CLUE!! I have been asked by these professionals to explain what gluten is!? The docs don't have the time(or want) to gather and dispense all the diet guidelines for a celiac. As you all know, there are many aspects to what a healing celiac can and cannot eat. So many are lactose intolerant, sensitive to soy, etc, etc. While it has been my experience that, once healed, some celiacs can return to milk products, etc--if not in LARGE quantities. We are right when we start discussing the fact that many people would panic if they understood the full implications of this disease! How many diabetics have you met that you didn't wonder what the UNDERLYING cause might be? I seem to always be coming across someone with an autoimmune disease(fibromyalgia, Lupus, hypothyroidism) and thinking to myself---"could be celiac". We know the possibility is there, but we often find ourselves not saying anything because we know what the doctor's reaction will be---"the person that told you that is crazy. Do you have chronic diarreha?" How frustrating to be so educated and knowledgeable about a disease that the doctors are almost ignorant to. There was an article in a Gordon Liddy publication(unsure of the name at this moment...will send it later) dealing with this disease and he states that his research shows as many as 1 in 80 could have this. As many of you may be aware, there was a study done with infants that gave this statistic. The doctors(in general) are still telling our society that this is RARE!!! I agree with the person who wrote that she was inundating her docs with celiac literature. Maybe we should all be working to educate our hometown docs. They may not listen to us, but they certainly can't argue the medical journal writings, can they??! [[[[[stepping off soapbox]]]]] ~Margie in KY