Over the past 20-years, it has been shown that the majority of patients with dermatitis herpetiformis (D.H.) suffer from coeliac disease of varying intensity. Dermatitis herpetiformis may also be associated with other autoimmune diseases but only exceptionally with chronic ulcerative colitis (U.C.).
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