Simple Food Protein Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome (๐ ๐๐๐๐) or Food Protein Induced Proctocolitis (๐ ๐๐๐) is often mistaken for a viral infection causing vomiting and diarrhoea, with occasional blood in stool.โฃ
Often, and not wrongly, it may be diagnosed as a ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฏ-๐๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐บ, with the most common being CMPA.
Important to note that severe ๐ ๐๐๐๐ is relatively rare and less common than Anaphylaxis!โฃ
๐ ๐๐๐๐ most common triggers:โฃ
Most children will be able to tolerate the food causing the reaction by the age of 2 or 3 years old.โฃ In some cases, it may persist throughout life.โฃ
Children with recurrent episodes may suffer from poor growth and weight loss – failure to thrive.โฃ
Usually children will recover very fast from an episode of ๐ ๐๐๐๐, as long as appropriate diagnosis and treatment is made.โฃ
For severe cases, the best treatment is fluid resuscitation.โฃ
Though you will often see all of them being used due to the worry it is either Anaphylaxis or Sepsis.โฃ
In the case of ๐ ๐๐๐, most symptoms tend to resolve by 6 months of age (50%) or 9 months of age (95%).โฃ
The advice is to reintroduce the causing food into the mother’s diet after an exclusion period of 6 months or give it to the child when reaching 12 months of age.โฃ
For both cases, if the child is formula fed be aware that:โฃ
In the case of a breastfeeding mother, a restriction diet needs to be guided by a dietitian.โฃ
For ๐ ๐๐๐๐, there seems to be a 30% chance of people involved to develop either ๐ข๐ต๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ช๐ค ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ด (eczema), ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ข or ๐ฉ๐ข๐บ๐ง๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ (allergic rhinitis).
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