Inflammatory bowel disease in exclusively breast-fed infants

Kuloglu Z., KANSU TANCA A., TUNA KIRSAÇLIOĞLU C., Ince E., ENSARİ A., Girgin N.

SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY, vol.41, no.11, pp.1364-1367, 2006 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 41 Issue: 11
  • Publication Date: 2006
  • Doi Number: 10.1080/00365520600641361
  • Journal Name: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.1364-1367
  • Keywords: infant, inflammatory bowel disease, CROHNS-DISEASE, ALLERGIC COLITIS, CHILDREN, BIOPSY, ONSET
  • Ankara University Affiliated: Yes

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.