Etiology of central nervous system demyelinating diseases is partially understood.
A link between multiple sclerosis (MS) and celiac disease (CD) has been suggested.
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and idiopathic myelitis (IM) have not been studied for CD.
MS, 37 NMO and 96 IM patients were submitted to serological analysis for CD.
This study did not confirm relationship between these demyelinating diseases and CD.