Trying to help a friend with this problem; are there any newsgroups out
there for these sufferers?

Thanks for your help.

You have alt.support.celiac, but you may have to ask your ISP to add it to
the feed. Most activity is on the celiac mailing list. The list is at

CELIAC FAQ in the body of a message to the list server. Many other
documents also exist, send GET CELIAC FILELIST. To join, send a message to
the listserv with the following in the body: SUB CELIAC your name.

And this web page has annotated links to all sites on this subject,
including a link to the site that has all the archives of the above:

  The Gluten-Free Page:  http://www.GFlinks.com/

Don (donwiss at panix com).