 [ Symptoms ] will multi vitamin help with celiac disease  my husband has been on a gluten free diet for celiac disease less than a week i want to start him on a multivitamin but it will not work until the small intestine is healed enough to absorb the vitamins question how long after starting gluten free diet will the small intestine start to absorb nutrients [ Disease ] yes mine did and then after i had my baby girl i lost quite a bit of it <positive_smiley>