A La Crescenta Elementary School student who has suffer a lifetime of mysterious health problems has finally started to get some answers following widespread testing at a federal research center, Reece LoCicero, 5, has been diagnosed with cutaneous mastocytosis, a immediate skin disease that typically improves as a tolerant ages, said Gretchen Golas, a pediatric nurse practitioner at the Undiagnosed Diseases agenda at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland.
That the disease appears to be limited to his skin, and not throughout his body, should bring some hope, she added,“We feel very comfortable that it is immediately confined to the skin, and the fact that it is going to get better even as he grows is good news,” Golas said.
It was at least one answer for a litany of worrying symptoms — including severe fevers, internal bleeding, labored breathing and lesions — that Reece has suffer since infancy, He and his family traveled to the research ability last month for a week of medical testing, after which he be also diagnosed with asthma.
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