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A kwashiorkor case due to the use of an exclusive rice milk diet to treat atopic dermatitis

Although several cases of severe hypoalbuminemia resulting from rice milk have been described in the past, today the use of rice milk without nutritional counseling to treat eczema is still a continuing, poor practice. We describe a kwashiorkor case in an infant with severe eczema exclusively fed wi...

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Autores principales: Mori, Francesca, Serranti, Daniele, Barni, Simona, Pucci, Neri, Rossi, Maria Elisabetta, de Martino, Maurizio, Novembre, Elio
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4545991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26293684
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12937-015-0071-7
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author Mori, Francesca
Serranti, Daniele
Barni, Simona
Pucci, Neri
Rossi, Maria Elisabetta
de Martino, Maurizio
Novembre, Elio
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description Although several cases of severe hypoalbuminemia resulting from rice milk have been described in the past, today the use of rice milk without nutritional counseling to treat eczema is still a continuing, poor practice. We describe a kwashiorkor case in an infant with severe eczema exclusively fed with rice milk. It is well documented that rice milk is not a sufficient protein source. Moreover, only a small portion of eczema is triggered by food allergy. In conclusion this case raises the importance of managing dietary changes facing food allergies with responsibility for specialized consensus among pediatricians, nutritionists, endocrinologists and allergists all of them specialist professionals.
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spelling pubmed-45459912015-08-23 A kwashiorkor case due to the use of an exclusive rice milk diet to treat atopic dermatitis Mori, Francesca Serranti, Daniele Barni, Simona Pucci, Neri Rossi, Maria Elisabetta de Martino, Maurizio Novembre, Elio Nutr J Case Report Although several cases of severe hypoalbuminemia resulting from rice milk have been described in the past, today the use of rice milk without nutritional counseling to treat eczema is still a continuing, poor practice. We describe a kwashiorkor case in an infant with severe eczema exclusively fed with rice milk. It is well documented that rice milk is not a sufficient protein source. Moreover, only a small portion of eczema is triggered by food allergy. In conclusion this case raises the importance of managing dietary changes facing food allergies with responsibility for specialized consensus among pediatricians, nutritionists, endocrinologists and allergists all of them specialist professionals. BioMed Central 2015-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4545991/ /pubmed/26293684 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12937-015-0071-7 Text en © Mori et al. 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Mori, Francesca
Serranti, Daniele
Barni, Simona
Pucci, Neri
Rossi, Maria Elisabetta
de Martino, Maurizio
Novembre, Elio
A kwashiorkor case due to the use of an exclusive rice milk diet to treat atopic dermatitis
title A kwashiorkor case due to the use of an exclusive rice milk diet to treat atopic dermatitis
title_full A kwashiorkor case due to the use of an exclusive rice milk diet to treat atopic dermatitis
title_fullStr A kwashiorkor case due to the use of an exclusive rice milk diet to treat atopic dermatitis
title_full_unstemmed A kwashiorkor case due to the use of an exclusive rice milk diet to treat atopic dermatitis
title_short A kwashiorkor case due to the use of an exclusive rice milk diet to treat atopic dermatitis
title_sort kwashiorkor case due to the use of an exclusive rice milk diet to treat atopic dermatitis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4545991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26293684
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12937-015-0071-7
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