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" Growing up, I was allergic to tomatoes and chocolate. My brother had it worse: He couldn&amp;#039;t eat tomatoes, chocolate, or any cow milk product (or even baked goods that contained whey). So Mom made us carob-chip cookies and macaroni with oil and garlic, and Richie drank goat&amp;#039;s milk and soy formula \u2014 and when we finally outgrew these allergies in our teens, we felt like we were set free.  So it&amp;#039;s simultaneously fairly easy and nearly impossible for me to imagine the plight of my little 5-year-old friend Jack. Jack has a disorder called eosinophilic esophagitis (EE for short), in which his esophagus (and gastrointestinal tract) develops rashes, ulcers, and other pretty traumatizing reactions from literally every type of food. Jack is allergic to everything. He has a little backpack that he puts on a few times a day, which contains a pouch of nutritious formula that goes from the tube in the backpack straight to an opening in his torso \u2014 and that&amp;#039;s how Jack eats. (The American Partnership for Enosinophilic Disorders does a better, more thorough job of explaining EE than I can.) Every few months his mom, Linda (whom I&amp;#039;ve been friends with for \u2014 yikes! \u2014 17 years!) introduces one new food (say, cheese) into Jack&amp;#039;s diet. After eating this food for a while, Jack has to go down to the Children&amp;#039;s Hospital in Philadelphia for an endoscopy of his esophagus and stomach \u2014 if the biopsies reveal that there&amp;#039;s no damage to his body, it means the food is safe for him to eat. Last time I visited them, Jack had been doing okay with potatoes. Which means that he can eat baked potatoes, plain potato chips, standard-issue French fries ... really as long as the only ingredient in the food is potato (vegetable oil is safe too), he can eat it.  As time goes by, Jack&amp;#039;s body may tolerate more foods; some kids with this disorder have a list of a dozen foods that are safe to eat. I hope his list just grows and grows. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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