Colitis eosinofílica por alergia a proteína de leche de vaca

Eosinophilic colitis is one of the clinical manifestations of allergy to cow’s milk during the first year of life. We report a series of 9 infants who, under 9 months of age and while clinically well, presented rectal bleeding of variable magnitude, with or without diarrhea, shortly after a cow’s milk-based formula was initiated (n=6); yet, 3 cases received only breast feeding. Bleeding disappeared in all patients after milk withdrawal from the diet. Challenges were planned after 12 months of treatment; three patients have not yet reached this moment, 3 had a negative challenge at 12, 18 and 28 months of age and are on a complete diet, and 3 are still on cow’s milk free diet because ingestion of milk at 12, 18 and 25 months still induced rectal bleeding. This series of patients gathered in 3 years, follows the trend reported in many countries that there is a relative increase of patients diagnosed with allergy conditions early in life

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Main Authors:	Rossel G,Maureen, Ceresa O,Sergio, Las Heras B,Jorge, Araya Q,Magdalena
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	Spanish / Castilian
Published:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2000
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872000000200006
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