Boy, 6, has mysterious reaction to food

Ohio resident Cohen Bramlee, 6, is unable to eat solid foods due to a unique gene mutation, People reported. 

According to the source, parents suspected something was wrong when they tried to introduce solid food into his diet at the age of four months, but the baby Cohen’s stomach could not tolerate it. The child was extremely painful, and often suffered from various infections.

For several years, doctors could not make a diagnosis until they found that the reason for the rejection of solid food by the body is a mutation in the genes. It acts on the immune system, affecting the digestive process. As a result, immune cells are attacking swallowed solid food, perceiving it as a foreign body.

Today, Cohen is the only person in the world who has officially revealed such a strange mutation in genes. However, doctors do not exclude that there may be more patients, and their condition is simply not diagnosed for one reason or another.

There is no cure for a disease that the medical community did not even suspect existed. Meanwhile, doctors hope that bone marrow transplantation will help improve health. According to the analysis, Cohen’s siblings may be potential donors.

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