Meet Kaleb Bussenschutt

[Mr. Gayle]

When Kaleb Bussenschutt’s family sat down for his favourite meal of barbequed chicken on Monday night, he had to watch with envy, munching only on a cup of ice cubes.Kaleb, 5, who lives with his family in Adelaide, South Australia, suffers from a rare allergy that means he cannot stomach any type of food.Australian doctors are baffled by the child’s condition, which arose after his mother Melissa tried to wean him off breast milk when he was an infant.“I tried giving him a little bit of a Vegemite sandwich or a tub of yoghurt, but it gave him constant diahorrea,” Mrs Bussenschutt told The Times. “I knew something wasn’t right so I took him to hospital and they did a biopsy of his stomach and it showed that it was quite red and inflamed and full of ulcers.” Doctors initially thought Kaleb was milk or soy intolerant, so put him on a series of diets, including one consisting only of organic foods, but nothing seemed to work.“We’ve tried everything,” Mrs Bussenschutt said. “But from about the age of 18 months through to 5 he just increasingly got worse.”Kaleb’s condition became so bad last December that the Bussenschutts admitted him to hospital, where he did not stop vomiting for a week and would wake at 3am screaming in pain.Doctors concluded that he suffers from multiple food allergies and intolerances and severe malabsorption, which means his body cannot cope with food. They are continuing to conduct tests to determine why he reacts so badly to food.“All the doctors will tell me is that Kaleb is a very complicated child. No one knows what is wrong with him,” Mrs Bussenschutt said.Food allergies affect about one in 20 children, but the doctors treating Kaleb said that the severity of his condition was very rare.Dr Paul Hammond, a paediatric gastroenterologist from the Women’s and Children’s hospital in Adelaide, has treated Kaleb for the past four years and said he had never seen anything like it.“We do sometimes see this in babies but for someone of Kaleb’s age it is incredibly rare,” Dr Hammond said.

[Guest PROFIT2]

that is f*ckin f*cked...cup of ice cubes you know!

[revs]

damn thats deep*goes and eats prime rib*

[Mr. Martinez]

no allergies to anything when i'm ereee

[Trilliam]

*eats*

[Black Casper]

*finishes reggae reggae chicken from Subway*which isnt all that btw

[Captain Planet]

You insensitive swine.That's a 5 year old kid you know.Must be bare distressing.*Opens fridge*

[Guest Flat Ericó]

first line killed me

[menace-II-society]

no allergies to anything when i'm ereee

[Risky]

that is f*ckED

[Fearless-Guy]

fussy twirp

[DRC]

that is f*ckin f*cked...cup of ice cubes you know!

[kurious]

poor thing, Man shall not live on bread alone

[neeko]

^^^yupits a par tho smh

[Francis Coquelin]

someone needs to do the right thing and striketh him downthis can't be life, surely?

[Tirunih]

deepdoes this mean he'll die at a very young age?

[djbmc]

someone needs to do the right thing and striketh him downthis can't be life, surely?

lol, why do i find this funny?

[Grafter]

thats maaadi got a cousin who is about 8 now i think, lives in JA, he dont eat no solids what so everjus on this porridge ting, point blank refuses, been to all the doctors an mental evaluations an that, even went America, no one dont kno what the problem is

[Mr. Gayle]

thats maaadi got a cousin who is about 8 now i think, lives in JA, he dont eat no solids what so everjus on this porridge ting, point blank refuses, been to all the doctors an mental evaluations an that, even went America, no one dont kno what the problem is

Not good he is def missing out on Saturday soup

[Grafter]

he dont businessi think his dad made the porridge jus that bit to good when he was a babyhis dad is a baddaman CHEF, the youts actually missin out on a lot

[Ephren Taylor]

**Prays for that yout & his fam**f*ck conditions like that

[Eskay Jones]

How can he actually survive with no food?