Hi Kimmie,

Thanks for the welcome. I love your butterfly quote in your signature!

Sounds like your daughter could have celiac. There are blood tests they can do for the antibodies for gluten. They are not 100% accurate tests, they miss some cases. She would have to be eating wheat at the time she got the blood drawn for the test or the antibodies wouldn't show up. Of course she could do her own test by trying a gluten free diet for a while and see if her condition improves.

Some info on celiac is here:

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/celiac/

Diseases Linked to Celiac Disease

People with celiac disease tend to have other autoimmune diseases. The connection between celiac disease and these diseases may be genetic. These diseases include

* thyroid disease
* systemic lupus erythematosus
* type 1 diabetes
* liver disease
* collagen vascular disease
* rheumatoid arthritis
* Sjögren’s syndrome

I thought this article was interesting also. It is about Crohn's disease, and talks about the presence of antibodies to bakers yeast in the blood of Crohn's patients. So maybe there is a similar mechanism in place in Crohn's where yeast can get through the intestinal barrier and cause problems, like in celiac where gluten (gliadin) gets through. I started a yeast free diet this week to see if it helps my condition.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/art...i?artid=501007