Ben McGrath, a 12 year old boy, suffers from a very rare illness where the body mistakes food for an infection. Since his birth anything he ate or drank made him have a terrible pain, his body would spasm or worse. The first years of his life he was in and out the hospital. When he was 18 months he was finally diagnosed with his illness, eosinophilic enterocolitis allergic enteropathy. For more than 10 years Ben has been fed a special elemental formula, inserted directly into his stomach overnight. Now there is a treatment that might make Ben able to have the tube removed when he is 15 and live a normal life. Ben can now eat some food, but only in small portions.
Source:
The Observer
Sunday, 3 January 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jan/03/boy-who-cant-stomach-food
Reaction: I hope they succeed with this new treatment. The boy is obviously held back by his condition and did not really have the time to be a normal child because of all the problems his condition brought him. I can not imagine what it would be like to not be able to eat or drink at all. Lots of things in society are build around eating, especially when you are a child. It has been very hard on him and his family and I think they definitely deserve some good results from this treatment.
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