Allergic colitis differential diagnosis
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Qasim Salau, M.B.B.S., FMCPaed [2]
Overview
Differential Diagnosis
The differential diagnosis of allergic colitis can be classified into two according to age group.
Differential diagnosis in Infants
- Swallowed maternal blood syndrome
- Anorectal fissure
- Necrotizing enterocolitis especially in preterm babies
- Vitamin K dependent hemorrhage
- Other Coagulopathies (hereditary such as coagulation factor deficiency or acquired such as Liver disease with clotting factor deficiency)
- Intussusception
- Infectious colitis
- Meckel diverticulum
- Gastrointestinal duplication cyst
- Vascular malformations
- Inflammatory bowel disease(early onset)
- Hirschsprung disease complicated by enterocolitis
- Volvolus
- Gastro-duodenal ulcers
- Lymphonodular hyperplasia
Differential diagnosis in adolescent/ adult
- Crohn's disease
- Behcet's disease
- Arteriovenous malformation
- Diverticuclosis
- Infection
- Coagulopathy
- Systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE)
- Colorectal malignancy