Tyler Savage: he is fed through a tube in his stomach
Posted on 10/02/2007 3:51:14 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
Tyler Savage: he is fed through a tube in his stomach
A boy of 12 suffers from so many allergies that he is able to eat only five foods.
Tyler Savage is violently ill every time he is given dishes containing dairy products or wheat, gluten, eggs, lactose and soya.
The sole foods he is allowed are chicken, carrots, grapes, potatoes and apples.
To help him survive, minerals and vitamins are pumped directly into his stomach through a tube.
Tyler started to fall ill at the age of six when even a morsel of food would leave him writhing in agony from sickness and diarrhoea.
His mother, Lynne Savage, 43, said: "We asked for help but kept being told that he was suffering from a stomach infection. As a result his weight dropped drastically.
"He ran out of energy really quickly and couldn't do the things other children were doing. He just seemed to be getting worse and worse.
"It's been a real struggle. We didn't know what to do."
Tyler - from Earls Colne in Essex - was seen by a paediatrician at Chelmsford's St John's Hospital and had his appendix removed in December 2005.
Although the operation was a success it failed to solve the problem and he was referred to Colchester General Hospital for further tests and treatment.
That shed no light on the mystery illness and in April last year Tyler was sent to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London for checks on his stomach and bowels.
The tests led to a diagnosis of eosinophilic enteropathy, a rare and condition in which the intestines produce too many white blood cells.
These act as a miniature immune system and attack food passing through the gut to the stomach.
The condition saw Tyler's weight drop to barely three stone.
"He was becoming malnourished," said Mrs Savage, a married mother-of-three and housewife.
At first, Tyler was fitted with a nose tube to help get food direct to his stomach, bypassing the rogue blood cells in his gut.
Then, this May, he had a tube inserted into his stomach allowing him to be fed for up to ten hours through the night.
"Even though this will continue for the foreseeable future, it is a godsend," said Mrs Savage.
"Last year he was only at school for about ten days, but in the first two weeks of this new term he's only missed one day.
"We've got a long way to go but at least we're now getting some answers."
In the day, Tyler, whose father, David, 60, is an engineer, can eat the five foods he is not allergic to.
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MATT LAUER INTERVIEWS TYLER SAVAGE “NOW” on THE TODAY SHOW. 8:15 am est. Discussing the feeding tube now. Saved his life...
He's gained weight and strength and although he didn't like the nose tube, he's doing well w/the G tube that is only connected to his stomach at night. So, even Tyler Savage isn't "hooked to machines". Further, he doesn't crave food he sees his friends having because he knows it makes him very ill.
Tyler wants to "live that way". Imagine this kid is happy with a feeding tube and his quality of life is much improved!
There was no reason on earth to take away Terri's feeding tube: her nutrition and hydration except for GREED and the politics of POWER.
Maybe Judge Lauren Laughlin is in St. Pete instead of downtown Clearwater. I haven't ckd the local liberal rag yet for the latest on JOHN GRAZIANO. I have a problem with probate judges being guardianship judges too but that's how it's done.
And who could be a better spokesman for the evil side than that ascot wearing, wine and cheese slurping darling of the leftist elite who weeps waterfalls over murderers in death row and smirks of the the killing of the innocent?
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I caught up with him, Farrell was recuperating from an ankle injury he sustained following a 7,000-mile motorcycle trip (another one of his passions) and preparing for a cameo on the show Desperate Housewives. He was also trying hard to finance a movie about the Terri Schiavo case, a project he says has so far met with considerable resistance from the right wing.
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No news here, only agitprop.
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According to several American and British studies completed in the late nineties, patients suffering from what is known as “disorders of consciousness” are misdiagnosed between fifteen and forty-three per cent of the time. Physicians, who have traditionally relied on bedside evaluations to make diagnoses, sometimes misinterpret patients’ behavior, mistaking smiling, grunting, grimacing, crying, or moaning as evidence of consciousness. A neuroscientist showed me a video on the Internet of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman who spent fifteen years in what most doctors agree was a vegetative state—tests revealed almost no activity in her cortex—and whose death, in 2005, provoked fierce debate over the rights of severely brain-damaged patients. (Schiavo died after the Supreme Court rejected her parents’ appeal of a judge’s decision approving her husband’s request that her feeding tube be removed. An autopsy showed extensive brain damage.) In the video, a man’s voice can be heard praising Schiavo for opening her eyes in response to his instructions, and the neuroscientist told me that he was impressed until he muted the sound. “With the sound off, it is clear that her movements are random,” the neuroscientist said. “But, with the voice-over, it is easy to make a misdiagnosis.” (The prognosis for patients such as Schiavo, who suffered brain damage owing to oxygen deprivation following cardiac arrest, is much worse than for those who suffer brain damage as the result of a head injury.)
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WFLA RADIO wrong on date of prez visit. IT'S TODAY. http://www.sptimes.com/2007/10/12/Southpinellas/Bush_visits_for_lunch.shtml
Here's the article and WHO is greeting him on the tarmac? None other than Hospice of the Suncoast volunteer! Where's the luncheon fundraiser? At Brent Sembler's house (he was either Charlie Crist or George Greer's campaign manager).
It's all here... Did the prez save Terri? Well, no.
And now, he thinks it's a good time to visit PINELLAS PARK, reward Hospice with a tarmac meetup and the stop by the Sembler's to pick up big bucks. (Mayor Mischler wasn't invited which was missreported by the morning crew at wfla.)
Who told the prez this was a good idea? No matter. He sees dollar signs ka ching. Of course Terri was an inside job and it went all the way to the top. If you don't care to believe it, don't. It's out there if you aren't drinkin' hospice koolaid.
When you fly in, don't you always have hospice waiting for you at the tarmac to reward them for their work and then you go and pick up money from Greer's errand boys? Sure you do.
(and to think I was half joking about him visiting Hospice. He didn't have to.) They're meeting him on the tarmac so he doesn't have to go to Hospice Woodside in person or risk the memory of Terri popping up again, since it WAS an inside job.
This is why I LEFT the gop and am an indy.
W gets his cooperation kickback TODAY.
10-10-07 "Maybe his visit is a little thank you to the city for carrying out her extermination."
Fast Forward: Today Friday is reward and kickback day in PINELLAS PARK. Sometimes, conspiracy theories are true, lurkers, freepers and media. FV
http://www.judgegeorgegreer.com (errand boys are here too).
These act as a miniature immune system and attack food passing through the gut to the stomach.
At first, Tyler was fitted with a nose tube to help get food direct to his stomach, bypassing the rogue blood cells in his gut.
I'm really confused...how is the food he's receiving in his stomach via GI tube bypassing his intestines?
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