Inflammatory bowel disease in exclusively breast-fed infants

Scand J Gastroenterol. 2006 Nov;41(11):1364-7. doi: 10.1080/00365520600641361.

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel disease is uncommon in infants. We present the clinical, endoscopic and pathologic findings for two exclusively breast-fed infants with a diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease. We emphasize that although inflammatory bowel disease is rare in infants, chronic bloody diarrhea must be a sufficiently alarming symptom to consider a differential diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease in young infants is considered, even when they are exclusively breast-fed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / therapeutic use
  • Breast Feeding*
  • Colonoscopy
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Diarrhea / etiology
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Female
  • Glucocorticoids / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Immunosuppressive Agents / therapeutic use
  • Infant
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / drug therapy
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
  • Glucocorticoids
  • Immunosuppressive Agents