umm I fit under this heading and thanks for that article CFSKate....
I am allergic to eggs/milk/wheat..scored 99.2% on the gluten wee test in sunderland. I did the diet for 8 months and to be honest it picked me up as turned mid 30's and I just hit the deck for 18 months couldn't do anything...had constant brain fog, weak terrible skin couldnt sleep and constantly tired. I started to scratch on ds when pregnant and have not stopped since. My liver is terrible painful and I have liver disease (non alcohol) I had asthma and have eczhma and my mother has diabetis and we both have low B12.
My dad and sister have alopeacea my sister bald since she was 24yrs and she has hypothyroidism. My mum has anemia but her twin sister has opposite (to many red blood cells ...heama ????forgot name) we are a walking autimmune time bomb....and when ds had MMR the to many injections caused a metobolic crisis and mito problems attacking the brain (mbp auto antobodies extremely high in ds results...conected to measels/egg)
Dr at biomed confirmed I had CFS but I could not afford their input so have just left it. I have been a lot better since the diet even though not on it now (CFGF) milk is defo a problem for me (fog/liver/stomach). So glad I got ds on strick diet though.
Dr Goldberg in USA who does NIDS discovered that when he was looking at kids with autism they had same results as his wife who has CFS so he says their is a link also!