Pray for this little guy
We had a brief discussion on food allergy last night and I was pretty sad that people are not able to eat certain food. I feel like I am blessed to be able to eat every food and I am the one who can choose the kind of food I can eat. But this kid, who can only eat 6 foods (chicken, tuna,carrots,potatoes,grapes,apple) out of hundreds of thousands available in the world, able to live without sadness or complaint. Because he knows he will be ill if he does not follow. I wish that i can follow this little kid attitude toward my Christian life and wholeheartedly serve people and the lord without any rejection or complaint. May everyone of you inspired by this little kid and patiently follow His steps. Eventually God will give us freedom just like this little kid. =)
The boy who is allergic to (almost) every food
Tylor Savage, 12, beginning to expand his diet now thanks to
treatments
By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
Updated: 7:10 a.m. PT Oct 11, 2007
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Twelve-year-old Tylor Savage doesn have to ask what
for dinner. It chicken or tuna with carrots and potatoes and maybe some grapes
or an apple ?the only foods to which he is not allergic.
?span style="font-weight: bold;">I a little bored with the same food,?Tylor told TODAY
co-host Matt Lauer during a visit to New York on Thursday with his father and
sister.
But the British boy is not complaining. When Lauer asked
him if he wishes he could eat all the wonderful things he sees other kids
wolfing down, he said, ot really, because I know it will make me ill.?/p>
ll?is a mild descriptive for what Tylor went through
for most of his life. He was 4 years old the first time he got violently sick
after eating. By the time he was 6, the diarrhea and vomiting were getting
worse, but his doctors could find nothing wrong with him, putting his digestive
problems down to stomach viruses.
t was horrible,?his 15-year-old sister, Elycia,
said.
t broke my heart,?added his father, David Savage, who
made the trip to New York with Tylor and Elycia. Tylor mother, Lynne, remained
at home in England with the family third child.
By the time he was 10, Tylor situation was desperate.
He was passing out, going into convulsions and passing blood from both ends of
his digestive tract. His weight was down to less than 50 pounds, his growth
stunted, his body little more than skin and bones.
His mystified doctors took out his appendix, thinking
that might be the problem, but he showed no improvement.
Last September, specialists at Great Ormond Street
Hospital in London, where he been undergoing tests since April 2006, realized
that what Tylor had wasn a stomach virus but an extremely rare condition
called eosinophilic enteropathy.
The disorder causes his intestines to produce too many
white blood cells that act as an immune system and attack food passing through
the gut.
Doctors found that he was allergic to nearly everything
he ate, including wheat, gluten, dairy products, eggs and soy products.
On the mend
They took him off all
food, feeding him a liquid formula through a gastric tube inserted through his
nose. They then introduced him to one food at a time, making sure he could
tolerate it before adding another. Recently, tuna joined chicken as a protein
source.
Although Tylor could eat again, he still needs to be fed
vitamins and minerals in liquid form. The tube through his nose was causing
painful sores where it rubbed against his nose, so in May it was replaced by a
port in his stomach. Every night, Tylor plugs a tube connected to a bag of
formula into his stomach.
Since getting the stomach tube and finding solid foods he
can eat without getting sick, Tylor is thriving. Last year, he was so sick, he
attended just 10 days of school. This year, he missed only one day.
e got more energy now,?he told Lauer. He plays
soccer and bowls and can roughhouse with other kids. t not like I used to
be.?/p>
His sister, meanwhile, has been organizing events ?she
bungee-jumped earlier this year ?to raise funds to help others with Tylor
condition.
He said that his diet will expand. here a lot of
things I am allowed but haven been introduced to yet,?he said.
The plane flight to New York, he said, was too long, but
he said he enjoying the city. Lauer asked if there was anything in particular
he wanted to do.
want to go to a Nintendo event,?he said. e got
some games I need to play.?/p>
?2007 MSNBC Interactive
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