Girl Allergic to All Foods... But Tic-Tacs

[Smurfysmiles]

WOW How crazy is this!! I found this while I was supposed to working-I got bored and was eating tic tacs and googled them and found this lol!
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http://www.insideedition.com/storyprint.aspx?SpecialReportID=1316

It’s meal time for 17-year-old Natalie Cooper and what is on the menu? Tic Tacs! That’s right...Tic Tacs! In fact, that is all she eats.

The teenager is battling a mystery illness that makes her allergic to everything but the two-calorie mints.

It is not easy having your whole life revolve around Tic Tacs...at the supermarket, Natalie and her mom stock up. Their cabinets are full of them.

Meal times are rough for Natalie. While her mom serves sandwiches to everyone else, Natalie gets nothing but a box of Tic Tacs.

But the tiny mints don’t provide Natalie with enough nutrients or calories to live, so most of her sustenance comes from a feeding tube.

“It’s very unusual but there are cases where people can’t keep anything down bigger than say, a Tic Tac, and they require artificial feeding through a tube,” Dr. Raj explains to INSIDE EDITION.

Growing up in England, Natalie was a healthy baby, eating regular food. But at the age of 13, Natalie’s stomach mysteriously started rejecting everything she ate, and her weight dropped to a frightening 70 pounds. Eventually all she could eat were after-dinner mints.

Natalie tells INSIDE EDITION, "I started with the big ones and they came up, so I went to these smaller ones, and they were too big, and now I’m down to the Tic Tacs."

Doctors still do not know what is wrong with Natalie, so for now there is no end in sight to her Tic Tac diet.

 

[elrohwen]

That''s ridiculous. I don''t even want to think about how many you''d have to eat to get enough calories! Not to mention all the other nutrients she''s missing out on. Hopefully her doctors figure this out so she can get some healthier food.

 

[Kaleigh]

Very goofy story, no offense to my lovely British friends but these wacly stories always come from the UK!!! As I was reading it, I was like ok, this has to come from the UK....And sure enough it did....

If true that's really sad. I can't believe they haven't found the reason why she is soooo allergic, perhaps she should fly to our side of the pond...

 

[Callisto]

Hmmm very bizarre. As a bio nerd though I''d like to clarify that she isn''t allergic to other food. If she was allergic to the food she would reject the food from her feeding tube as well-unless I''m off base on my facts. So it must just be an issue with her stomach keeping the food down.

Either way, HOW BIZARRE! The weird things our bodies will do...

 

[MonkeyPie]

I bet she''s scary thin. How awful - you would think that she wouldn''t even bother with the tic-tacs and just use the feeding tube.

 

[Smurfysmiles]

Well it says she has a feeding tube to keep her weight up but at one point she was 70 lbs! Nuts!

 

[vespergirl]

Here''s an interesting counterpoint to that story - my father is allergic to no foods EXCEPT for Tic-Tacs.

Anytime that he has a Tic-Tac, he sneezes uncontrollably for about 30 seconds, then it passes. It doesn''t happen to him with any other type of breath mint.

 

[Dreamer_D]

That makes no sense at all!