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I have a friend whose family is going through a terrible time. She has cancer for the second time, her youngest daughter has been diagnosed as bi-polar, her three y.o. son is out of control and won't behave, her husband won't help discipline the children. Seems the only one in the family without a major issue (other than living in such a chaotic environment), is the oldest daughter.

So, anyway, I was doing a google search about the link between bi-polar and celiac disease. Seems there is a link. (Sometimes I wonder what celiac disease is not linked to.) I came across a message board in which that link was being discussed. One woman said that her daughter had a "bout" with celiac disease when she was a toddler so the mother fed her strict and healthy gluten free diet. I'm assuming that the daughter's symptoms went away and she eventually started eating gluten again because the woman said that now, her daughter's late teens, she is starting to exhibit those symptoms again and she's worried about what that might mean.

First of all, you don't have a "bout" of celiac disease. You either have it or your don't...for life. Why doesn't that mother know that? I suppose that it's because the medical community, for years, espoused the notion that children can "grow out of" celiac disease.

Well, that message that I read was from 2004, so it's rather obsolete. I imagine that if the woman's daughter was exhibiting symptoms at the time, then they probably escalated from there and by now, she may know that she does, indeed, need to be on a gluten-free diet from now on.

Hope springs eternal.