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Dylan Dreyer is sharing an important wellness update related to her son.
The Today meteorologist said that her 6-year-old lad Calvin—who she shares with husband Brian Fichera—had been diagnosed with celiac disease.
"The bloodwork came backmost with the results of him having celiac disease," she told Today in an interrogation published May 24. "I knew thing astir celiac disease. I knew a person of a person had it, and she couldn't devour bread. That's fundamentally the cognition I had."
The diagnosis came aft Calvin had suffered tummy pain, earaches, rashes and hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment for astir a year. His tummy symptom reached a constituent wherever helium was "hunched implicit successful pain," which led his household to rush him to the infirmary successful fearfulness of an appendix burst. It was that infirmary sojourn that prompted the household and doctors to behaviour further probe into his condition.
"He had to spell and get an endoscopy," Dylan recalled. "They needed to nonstop the camera down into his intestines to marque definite determination was harm caused by celiac disease."
Celiac illness occurs erstwhile the immune strategy attacks gluten successful the small intestine, resulting successful the tiny intestine to relation irregularly, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Now, Calvin is recovering well after receiving answers to his wellness issues.
"He was conscionable successful changeless pain," Dylan added. "He yet feels good...[for] the archetypal clip successful a year. He's blessed we discovered this due to the fact that it's like, ‘OK, good. I tin yet consciousness similar myself.'"
And though he's had to power to a new gluten-free diet, which besides resulted successful Dylan buying caller room products, Calvin is inactive enjoying a assortment of food.
"It's been a travel but we're figuring it each out," Dylan wrote connected Instagram May 24. "It's similar thing to Calvin astatine this point…he feels amended and I'm making definite he's eating delicious food. That's each I tin inquire for!"
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