[8mmMauser]

It is a case where feeding tubes give this boy a chance.

[8mmMauser]

Feeding tubes...

8mm

[TruthSetsUFree]

"The sole foods he is allowed are chicken, carrots, grapes, potatoes and apples."

You have to wonder if they've truly tested all foods that are available. Often those allergy tests only cover our Western foods, not grains, veggies and fruits found elsewhere.

I'm personally not able to eat gluten, dairy, corn, eggs, peanuts, pecans, and most beans, but still find a vast variety of foods I CAN eat, largely by shopping at the international grocery store.

Regardless, I AM glad that a feeding tube can help this boy. Hopefully they'll find other ways to help him as well that he won't always have to be on one.

[mtbopfuyn]

Thankfully he lives in England and not Florida.

[varyouga]

He’s being kept alive artificially. Cut the tube.

/s

[Publius6961]

I missed the part about every school in Earls Colne being forbidden to allow any other child to eat normal foods...

[Sun]

I can remember when children who used feeding tubes sent Terri Schiavo greeting cards.

[Fire_on_High]

Ping to check back later.

[floriduh voter]

What a sweet child. Feeding tubes have been given a bad rap here at FR by some posters.

[mware]

Prayers for this young boy.

I have lactose intolerance. It does not seem to be as severe as it once way (got gall bladder out) and I would not wish it on my worse enemy.

[tutstar]

ping

[JustDoItAlways]

I always think Munchausen by Proxy in these cases.

Common enough that it should be checked first.

[Ditter]

OMG! This poor kid! It makes my allergies seem like nothing. Corn, chocolate, alcohol and flavor enhancers like MSG and the other more powerful ones. Only the flavor enhancers are a serious threat for me.

[traumer]

I am allergic to almost any work...

[Sloth]

These act as a miniature immune system and attack food passing through the gut to the stomach... At first, Tyler was fitted with a nose tube to help get food direct to his stomach, bypassing the rogue blood cells in his gut.

Journalists are SO dumb. And now we don't know the real reason why he has the tube.

[aruanan]

At first, Tyler was fitted with a nose tube to help get food direct to his stomach, bypassing the rogue blood cells in his gut.

I wonder if the rest of the story makes as little sense as the sentence above does? If you're fed by tube to stomach, then from the stomach the food empties into the intestines, ie., the gut, where the "rogue blood cells" are. Nothing is getting bypassed.

[aruanan]

On the bright side, he won't be coming down with a case of hookworm.

Trends Parasitol. 2006 Dec;22(12):547-50.
Intestinal allergy expels hookworms: seeing is believing.

Croese J, Speare R.
Department of Gastroenterology,
Townsville Hospital,
Townsville, QLD 4814,
Australia.
jcroese@bigpond.com

It is unclear how immunity limits hookworm infection. Australian researchers, using capsule and conventional gastrointestinal endoscopy in volunteers inoculated with Necator americanus, have reported that virtually all larvae reach the intestine within six weeks. Unlike the neutral response surrounding resident hookworms, newly arrived adults provoke an eosinophilic enteropathy. This allergic reaction curtails the attachment of hookworms and accompanies the passage of additional worms as they are expelled from the proximal small intestine.

[cschroe]

If this unfortunate young man went to a public school in the United States, a flyer would go home to every kid in his class saying they could only bring chicken, carrots, grapes, potatoes and apples for lunch and that there would be no parties with cakes or treats for birthdays.

[floriduh voter]

Useless eaters. Link between Darwin and Hitler:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57351

[RockinRight]

Poor kid. I always felt sorry for kids who were allergic to everything.

[Yaelle]

Betcha he had all of his vaccines as a newborn; wonder if he would even have these allergies if he hadn’t. Poor guy - prayers up for his long and healthy life.