From two months onwards, the stool often has bleeding spots or blood streaks, more or less, and often mucus can be found. Go to the hospital to check the stool, indicating that there are white blood cells, red blood cells, positive occult blood test, plus the child has mucus in the stool, and start oral antibiotic treatment. After a week, the improvement is still not obvious.
Combined with the baby's performance, the doctor said that the most likely is allergy, and it is common in babies, food protein-induced allergic proctolitis.
So why is allergy still diagnosed?
What is the disease that the doctor said?
What is food protein-induced allergic proctocolitis?
The disease, first introduced in 1982 and previously known as allergic or eosinophilic rectal colitis or "protein intolerance," is the most common cause of rectal bleeding (blood in the stool) in healthy infants and young children ,especially those within 1 year of age.
It is an allergic reaction caused by one or more food proteins, with milk protein and egg and soy protein being the most common triggers. Although it is allergic, it is not related to immunoglobulin E, and mainly acts on the distal colon, causing inflammation, bloody stools, and mucus.
The disease is a benign, self-limiting disease that occurs in the first few months of a baby's life and is mostly no problem after the age of 1.
What is the manifestation of this disease?
The biggest feature of this disease is that most children only have problems with blood or mucus in the stool, and there are no problems in other aspects. That is to say, healthy children, with blood in the stool, is the most important manifestation.
1. Age of onset of the disease: mostly appears within a few months after birth, 1 month of age is more common, but the earliest, 1 week after birth (that is, 7 days after birth) will appear, and the late one will appear at the age of 3.
2. Most children's growth is not affected, but weight gain may be slower, and some studies have found that 15.6% of children have no weight gain
3. Studies have found that 18% of children with this disease have vomiting and 5% have bloating. But although vomiting is present, it is not significantly different from normal children. These babies may be more irritated, nauseated, and refuse to eat than normal children.
4. At present, most of the literature believes that the disease is more likely to occur in exclusively breastfed children, 60% of which occur in breastfeeding, but this is related to race, and different races are different. However, studies have found that in the first 2-4 months of life, more formula is used, followed by breastfeeding, and the least is the combination of formula and breast milk.
5, the disease is a self-limiting disease, some children will disappear at the age of 6 months, most children, around the age of 1 will disappear, very few children do not recover after the age of 3
Bao Mom must seek medical treatment in time when she finds that the baby is abnormal, although sometimes it is indeed a matter of spending money to buy it, but it must not be taken lightly!
