Researchers find dietary interventions may prevent inflammatory symptoms associated with Hirschsprung disease

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Add as preferred source Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A multi-institutional study led by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) discovered for the first time that dietary interventions might prevent inflammatory symptoms associated with Hirschsprung disease, a bowel motility disorder. The findings were published in the journal Gastroenterology .

Hirschsprung disease is a potentially life-threatening birth defect in which neurons of the enteric nervous system—the "brain" of the gut—do not form properly in the wall of the intestine and are completely missing at the end of the bowel.