A resident of Great Britain spoke about her rare chronic disease - eosinophilic esophagitis. Her words are quoted by The Liverpool Echo. Aimee-lea Smith from the English county of Merseyside suffered from weak immunity since childhood. “I am prone to allergic reactions from birth. I was regularly taken to doctors for check-ups, biopsy and endoscopy were performed, admitted the 16-year-old British woman. At the age of ten, the girl was diagnosed with eosinophilic esophagitis, a chronic immune disease in which an inflammatory reaction develops in the esophagus.
In 2016, Smith's health deteriorated sharply. The doctors installed a tube for the patient through which food was supplied to her body. “It turned out to be morally difficult to eat through a tube, it practically destroyed me,” she recalls. - I became unsure of myself. It affected not only me, but also my family. " Smith does not need a tube for now, but she still battles her illness every day. “I wake up every day and suffer from acid reflux (the discharge of stomach contents into the esophagus - approx." Lenta.ru "), - added the British. "It leads to chest pains, indigestion and heartburn."
The British noted that the doctors for a long time could not make the correct diagnosis, since her disease was quite rare. According to statistics, eosinophilic esophagitis occurs in about one in a thousand children. At the end of March, a resident of the British city of Fairham, Hampshire was reported, who spoke about an illness that causes her to eat unhealthy foods at night. Doctors said that the woman suffers from a rare eating disorder, night eating syndrome, which usually affects women.