Three-year-old boy who can't eat anything is running out of time, parents say

Michael Gonzalez is really a 3-year-old Florida boy who apparently can't eat any normal meals, and the parents appear at first sight inside a stress.

Michael drinks twenty to thirty bottles of prescription-only formula daily known as Neocate Junior. He can't eat apples or celery or other things that other kids his age eat, his mother, Jennifer Gonzalez, told Caramba Today affiliate KSTP.

But his predicament went from worrisome to alarming. Soon after the formula maker, Nutricia, made changes to the packaging in August 2012, Michael experienced from severe vomiting and diarrhea, his parents say. Believing that the organization also transformed the formula, his parents have hoarded containers filled with older stock, but it is only safe to consume through October.

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"That isn't OK, to inform me that my boy comes with an expiration date," Jennifer Gonzalez stated.

Specialists happen to be analyzing Michael in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in which the boy's parents required him two days ago to obtain help.

Michael continues to be identified with Food Protein-Caused Enterocolitis Syndrome, his parents stated. The syndrome isn't uncommon and it is usually connected by having an intolerance for milk or soy in infants six several weeks to some years old, stated Dr. Wesley Burks, chair from the pediatric medicine department in the College of New York. Parents realize there is a problem when the youngster will get diarrhea or throws up after feeding, he told Caramba Today.

It is extremely rare for a kid using the syndrome to become not able to consume a number of other meals apart from milk or soy, he stated.

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"Usually if you cannot tolerate many meals, it's associated with your bowel itself," stated Burks, that has not dealt with Michael and didn't discuss his situation particularly. Most kids outgrow the syndrome by age 3 to 5, he added.

Children's food allergic reactions cost her parents normally $4,000, mainly because of lost earnings as a parent switch jobs or work less, ABCNews.com reported in December.

From birth, Michael wasn't like other babies, his parents stated. He put up after every feeding and the parents worried he'd starve.

"Babies should be happy. He wasn't. Any time you given him, she got worse. He was mad," the boy's mother told KSTP.

Michael's parents discovered Neocate Junior as he was 11 several weeks old, also it assisted, they stated - until the organization transformed the packaging.

A speaker for Nutricia reported an argument published towards the company's website stating that the merchandise formulation and elements for Neocate Junior Un-processed continued to be exactly the same, though packaging graphics were remade in August. However, the organization stated it's received 14 similar complaints. Nutricia states it labored using the Food and drug administration to research the issue, and located the formula recipe continued to be unchanged, stated the speaker, who requested to not be cited by title.

The organization launched this statement concerning the situation to ABCNews.com:

"We know this can be a challenging here we are at the Gonzalez family. We're hooking up the household as well as their physician with the proper clinical experts to allow them to partner on finding alternative dietary solutions. This really is consistent with our pursuit to help provide dietary methods to kids with very sensitive and specialized conditions."

While his parents watch for medical help, meanwhile, Michael continues to reside in a global without regular food.

"He does not understand what real juice tastes like, or real milk," stated Jennifer Gonzalez.