An amino-acid based diet may help provide relief for patients with eosinophilic gastritis or gastroenteritis (EoG/EoGE), a small prospective study found.
All 15 participants experienced a complete histologic remission in both the stomach (from 50 to 11 eosinophils per high-power microscopic field of gastric or duodenal biopsy sample [eos/hpf], P<0.001) and in the duodenum (from 49 to 16 eos/hpf, P=0.001) following 6 weeks of the amino acid-based, nutritionally complete elemental formula (ELE) diet, reported researchers led by Nirmala Gonsalves, MD, of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.