The patient was a mystery that confounded the medical teams at BC Children’s Hospital their entire life. Patient 10, as they are known in a study that was just published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, stumped experts across several specialties. They had multiple medical conditions including severe food and drug allergies, asthma and eczema, which led to even further health complications. Even after Patient 10 became an adult and left the pediatric world, researchers and physicians at BC Children’s continued their quest for answers. It became an international odyssey that spanned three continents and involved many more patients.
