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Now, we like venison as much as the next guy, but to eat it every day? That’s the plight of young Timmy Armstrong, a 6-year-old boy with a rare condition that allows him to digest very few foods — deer meat being the only solid protein his stomach can handle. Now if it was bacon, it might not be so bad.

“I say I’m on a diet, I can’t eat a lot of food,” Timmy said.

Timmy has eosinophilic esophagitis, a disease that is relatively new to doctors. It is characterized by an intense inflammation of the esophagus associated with allergies.

“The white blood cells think food is a parasite and it attacks his body and creates all kinds of symptoms whether you see them or not,” said Timmy’s mother, Stacey Dionne.

Timmy lives on a very restricted diet thanks to the disease.

“He can eat deer, he can have natural oats, for condiments he can have salt…sugar,” said Timmy’s father, Tim Armstrong Sr.

Also on Timmy’s daily menu is an amino acid-based formula fed through a tube.