Colitis eosinofílica como diagnóstico diferencial de desnutrición en pacientes pediátricos

Abstract

Eosinophilic colitis (EC) is a gastrointestinal disorder that involves the infiltration of some eosinophilic agent in some segment of the intestinal tract. The pediatric patient who suffers from this pathological condition tends to present various clinical manifestations, which can be used to make a differential diagnosis of child malnutrition, so it is fundamentally to perform an endoscopy, in order to rule out or confirm the infiltration that it entails, the development of the EC. Objective: To analyze the relevant aspects of EC as a differential diagnosis of malnutrition in pediatric patients. Methodology: Bibliographic review of a descriptive-explanatory design and with a qualitative approach, considering the following sources of information: Science Direct, PubMed, Scopus, Lilacs, Cochrane, Redalyc, SciELO, and Proquest. Results: EC is an inflammatory disorder that originates because an eosinophilic agent infiltrates some part or component of the digestive tract, causing an intestinal alteration that manifests itself with pain in the abdomen, diarrhea, presence of bleeding in the feces and loss of blood, of body weight. Conclusions: CE can appear during any stage of the evolutionary cycle of the human being, however, between three and six years, the individual shows a greater probability of developing it. The symptoms of EC in suspected malnutrition in pediatric patients are diarrhea, abdominal pain, continuous nausea, vomiting, chills, weight loss, nutritional problems, and undue exhaustion.