What is eosinophilic esophagitis?

What is eosinophilic esophagitis?

Eosinophilic esophagitis is an inflammatory condition (swelling) of the esophagus (the tube connecting the mouth to the stomach). With this condition you have an over-abundance of a specific type of white blood cell (the eosinophil).

The number of people affected by eosinophilic esophagitis is about 1 in 10,000. Nearly three-quarters of cases occur in white males. This is a recently recognized disease that has been increasingly diagnosed in adults and children over the past decade.