Although many people often suffer from only one or a handful of food allergies, that isn't the case for Tyler Trovato.
The 6-year old is allergic to everything besides peanut butter and jelly and milk.
According to ABC News, Trovato can only eat a handful of other foods besides that.
The first-grader, from St. James, New York, has had to enter a hospital ever since he was 18 months old before he tries any new foods due to his extreme condition.
That includes, "chicken, turkey, rice, sweet potatoes and bananas, among others. As an infant, he was even allergic to his mother's breast milk and she was a vegetarian," ABC said.
Whenever Trovato tries new foods, he begins to experience a slew of problems.
"If he ingests a food he is allergic to, Tyler begins to have stomach pains about two to four hours after ingestion and then vomits, sometimes so violently he bleeds. Diarrhea follows and then a shock-like response," the article reported.
"He becomes pale, lethargic, doesn't talk and usually stumbles when he walks," said the boy's mother, Jennifer. "When he reacts he needs fluids. The hospital usually gives him saline, steroids and sometimes Benadryl. He doesn't require an epi-pen but his allergic reaction can be life threatening."
According to doctors, Travis suffers from a "food protein induced enterocolitis syndrome or FPIES."
A disease so rare, experts do not know how many children suffer from it. There is also no way to diagnose the disease.
"In FPIES, there is an allergic reaction in the gastrointestinal system," ABC reported. "The most common triggers are milk and soy, but any food, even rice and oats, can cause a reaction. Unlike most food allergies, an FPIES reaction is delayed and usually begins two hours after ingestion of food culprits."
Another boy, Fallon Schultz from New Jersey, suffers from the same disease and his mother has started the International Association for Food Protein Enterocolitis (IAFFPE), so doctors and parents can be made aware of this rare disease.
