It’s normal for us to eat at a fried chicken fast food restaurant, but for 6-year-old Christopher Cataldo from Houston, USA Do, because for him, nearly any food would give him an allergy.
The only potato grid
Christopher has a condition called eosinophilic esophagitis, or EoE, which is a very rare and incurable condition. Having this disease means eating, or even smelling, most foods will kill him!
In patients with EoE, the esophagus and colon produce large amounts of a type of white blood cell that kills bacteria and parasites, but due to an autoimmune imbalance, white blood cells also have a negative effect on food. In response, it produces toxins and triggers inflammation. The best way to manage the condition so far is to have a food test and change your diet, while taking steroids to reduce swelling or widen the esophagus. EoE is a disorder that has only been discovered in recent years, and little is known about its exact cause.
After years of food testing, the doctor gave Christopher all the foods he could eat, and there were only 7: apples, grapes, regular rice, potatoes, tomatoes, lemons and bananas, and the others were It will cause various adverse reactions in his throat and colon, such as swelling. At the same time he is immunocompromised, which means he is unable to go in and out of crowded places, such as restaurants.
Since then, scientists at Cincinnati Children’s have added another food to Christopher’s food test list–Chick-fil-A’s potato grids. This potato grid is fried in vegetable oil. In addition to the potato grid, there are only disodium dihydrogen pyrophosphate (to maintain color), refined high oleic acid rapeseed oil, citric acid (to preserve freshness) and dimethyl polysilicon Oxane (as a defoamer).
Christopher is very happy to hear this news, he can finally know the taste of potato chips! As a result, his parents often went to Chick-fil-A to bring him a lot of potato chips, which soon became his favorite food. In Christopher’s words, eating tomatoes all the time is very down-to-earth, and eating potato grids can make him look more like an ordinary person. And he wanted very much to be a normal person. Little Christopher has a big dream – one day he can open a fast food restaurant like Chick-Fil-A.
Although he often looks envious at the kids running around in the fried chicken place, and fantasizes that one day he will be able to eat and play in the shop one day, he will never enter this place. A fast food restaurant, because there are so many people there, is a deadly pathogen to him.
The local Chick-Fil-A fried chicken shop made a decision after learning about Christopher. They chose to close the store on a Wednesday weekday,invite Christopher beforeto dine. The entire fried chicken shop serves only him.
Christopher is overjoyed! He never thought his dream would come true! On this day, he came to Chil-Fil-A and completed the order with the help of the clerk. He also assisted in the production of potato grids in the back kitchen, and finally sat in the store and ate the potato grids!
He also practiced how to be a cashier and spent a while in the play area like the other kids.
He told his mother that it was the happiest day of his life. And his mother was already crying, she said that she was really grateful to all the people who made this happen, thank you for protecting and realizing Christopher’s dream.
Allergies should be taken seriously
There are very few people like Christopher, but EoE cannot be ignored. According to statistics, the prevalence of EoE has increased rapidly in recent years, and 1/2000 people are at greater risk. What’s more, there are all kinds of allergy symptoms in this world, and countless people suffer from allergies.
You may want to ask the question that has troubled me for a long time: why do these foreigners (European and American people) always have allergies? Peanuts, milk, nuts, eggs… are all their allergens, and the packaging will always be gluten-free, protein-free, etc. You can’t eat this or that.
Why do Chinese people seem to have nothing to do with it, is it “it’s not clean, I don’t get sick after eating, and there is a chemical element table in my stomach, how can I be allergic…” or something like that? Indeed, there is a “hygiene hypothesis” that says that when people are in a clean environment without foreign objects, the immune system overreacts to normal substances and leads to allergies – this may indeed be one of the reasons why Europeans and Americans are prone to allergies.
But in fact, it’s more likely: Europeans seem “allergic” because they take it seriously enough. The fact that Chinese people don’t seem to be very allergic is because the whole society does not have a deep understanding of “allergies”.
Many allergy sufferers live cautiously because of their “seafood allergy”, “peanut allergy” and “alcohol allergy”, but there are still many people around them who think they are “hypocritical” and “pretentious” “,”Made me look bad”. There are many examples on social media—
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This is a serious problem, but fortunately, more and more people are starting to realize that allergies are a serious problem. I hope more people can realize this, Don’t try to persuade people with alcohol allergies to drink, stop forcing people with food allergies to eat somethingDon’t secretly add them to other people’s food Elements of explicit refusal – Even if their reason for refusal is not allergies, it is very rude and impolite.
Take care of people with allergies and don’t make fun of other people’s lives.
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