Baby hospitalised after reaction to chicken

Medics are reporting that an eight-month-old baby boy presented to a Dublin hospital with the potentially fatal hypovolemic shock after suffering an adverse reaction to eating chicken.

According to medics at the paediatric department at the National Children’s Hospital in Tallaght, the baby was one of two babies to present at the hospital suffering from the rare Food Protection Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome.

The medics state that the syndrome is rare and is often misdiagnosed, where up to 20% of patients present in hypovolemic shock that can sometime prove fatal.