Let the Food Trials Begin!

Jalen's scope results are not good, but the doctors want him to start food trials anyway. Dr. Banks is considering fruit, rice, chicken, corn and potato. The fruit I am down with, and possible chicken and rice. Corn and potato have always been touchy for Jalen, and I will probably hold off on those until I try some other things first.

Jalen chose watermelon as his fruit of choice to begin with. Unfortunately, he overdid it yesterday and today, and just had a serious case of the runs! Well, at least the constipation is gone. We have not noticed any other symptoms with the watermelon. Next to add will be grapes.

Here is a brief rundown of the path report. Of 8 areas that biopsies were taken from, 3 areas showed modest improvements, three showed drastic increases in the numbers of eos per field, and two stayed about the same. Here are the numbers, from the top of the digestive tract to the bottom:

mid esophagus=130
distal esophagus=140 (up from 80)
stomach=0 (down from 15)
duodenum=44 (up from 0)
terminal ileum=100 (up from 20)
right colon=64
transverse colon=52 (up from 20)
left colon=45 (down from 80)

I have read that the cut-off count for eos in the digestive tract is 20; counts higher than that lead to a diagnosis of EGID. All of Jalen's numbers (with the exception of stomach) are well above 20.