Food allergy presenting as a surgical abdomen in a neonate

dc.contributor.author	Parris, Denise
dc.contributor.author	Green, Robin J.
dc.date.accessioned	2016-04-14T09:17:47Z
dc.date.available	2016-04-14T09:17:47Z
dc.date.issued	2015-12
dc.description.abstract	Food allergies, especially of the non-IgE mediated variety, can masquerade as a number of other conditions in the young child. The following case report illustrate how neonate with cow's milk induced enteropathy was misdiagnosed initially as pyloric stenosis and subsequently as sepsis leading to unnecessary diagnostic tests and surgery.	en_ZA
dc.description.department	Paediatrics and Child Health	en_ZA
dc.description.librarian	am2016	en_ZA
dc.description.uri	http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/caci	en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation	Parris, D & Green, RJ 2015, 'Food allergy presenting as a surgical abdomen in a neonate', Current Allergy and Clinical Immunology, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 301-304.	en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn	1609-3607
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51998
dc.language.iso	en	en_ZA
dc.publisher	Allergy Society of South Africa	en_ZA
dc.rights	Allergy Society of South Africa	en_ZA
dc.subject	Food allergies	en_ZA
dc.subject	Young child	en_ZA
dc.subject	Cow's milk	en_ZA
dc.subject	Neonate	en_ZA
dc.title	Food allergy presenting as a surgical abdomen in a neonate	en_ZA
dc.type	Article	en_ZA