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Pauline received a year's supply of formula

AiF. Dobroe Serdce

Charitable foundation · Moscow

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With your help, we managed to raise funds for a year's supply of amino acid formula for a four-year-old girl suffering from a rare form of food intolerance. The family has already received the first of twelve packages. Jars, one by one, stand in the closet, which means that every day Paula will now have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. After all, this mixture is the only food to which the girl is not allergic.

Since birth, Pauline's immune system has been at war with everything around her. Her enemies include all kinds of foods, even hypoallergenic ones. Zucchini makes her swell up, boiled rabbit gives her a rash, and baked apples cause acute bronchitis. Everything her peers eat is contraindicated to her. And it's not just a food allergy, it's an intolerance that can easily lead to resuscitation, coma, and death. Doctors managed to pick up a formula for the girl that she can live with. Only this one food of hers is very expensive. At the same time, it flies away at the speed of the wind and is not given out under the MHI. But now the problem with nutrition is solved for the whole year.

- From the bottom of my heart, I thank everyone who responded and helped, - says Nastya, Polina's mother. - It's invaluable help for us. By the way, Polina knows very well that all these bottles of formula feeding were bought for her by caring people who believe in her and want her to do well. Thank you so much, our whole family feels your support!

With her food, Paula can go to the kindergarten and live a normal life. And her parents will not have to worry for a whole year if they have nothing to feed their child. Just the other day they were all together at the skating rink, teaching Paula to skate. With your help, there will be more such happy moments in the Chinkovs' lives.

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Pauline can't eat regular food, she needs a special mix

Who's surprised by allergies these days? But Polina Chinkova from Moscow manages to. Of the 112 major allergens, her body is only willing to put up with two: shrimp and Japanese cedar. Everything else Polina has: rash, itching, choking, swelling, and coughing up to obstructive bronchitis. She is treated by Moscow's chief allergist, Alexander Pampura, because the other doctors simply do not know what to do with a child who is allergic to almost all medications.

Pauline's immune system, like a powerful army, has taken a defensive position and attacks everything she comes into contact with. This is no longer just an allergy, but an intolerance that can easily lead to resuscitation, coma, and death.

A couple of years ago, doctors managed to pick up the girl's formula, and the Chinks finally healed in a different way. Without injections, hospitalization, crying, wounds and choking. Pauline could even go to kindergarten (of course, with their own water and food). Only a jar of formula - the only Pauline food - fly away at the speed of the wind, and to buy new ones is not enough and two parent's salaries.

Doctors hope to run the girl's stomach with peas from boiled apples and buckwheat grains. But it takes time, and the Chinks have four jars of formula left in their kitchen. That's four days' worth. We need it for at least three months.