8 Year Old Girl Could Starve To Death.....
Discussion
If her parents can't get hold of any KFC Popcorn chicken!
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18375033.po...
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18375033.po...
steveo3002 said:
king arthur said:
I can't help feeling this is more a parenting failure than an eating "disorder".
yeah agree.take the kid off em
My wife and I are both experienced mental health nurses, yet there's no intervention we have tried over the years that can help him.
Nor has any child psychologist, dietician or paediatrician ever made an ounce of difference.
There's 2 or 3 eating disorder centres around the country (GOSH and Addenbrokes I know) and he's just been referred to one, but our paediatrician doesn't think they will be a great help.
Our son eats Farley rusks, Cadbury milk chocolate, a certain brand of yogurt and we recently managed to get him drinking some strawberry Ensure Plus food supplements.
He has never had a vegetable/fruit or piece of meat in his life and he would fight/throw up if you tried to get anything else into him.
Luckily those rusks he eats are full of nutrients so he's physically fit and well. I must admit when the lockdown was looming I bought something like 40-50 boxes of them as running out would have pretty dire consequences for us.
I appreciate 99.9% of the population will never have come across this disorder, even many health professionals in the past have attributed it to 'fussy eating' and given us pretty useless advice accordingly.
The struggle is real though, and I totally understand what these parents are going through.
andy118run said:
Like the girl in the story, my 10 year old son also has Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder(ARFID).
My wife and I are both experienced mental health nurses, yet there's no intervention we have tried over the years that can help him.
Nor has any child psychologist, dietician or paediatrician ever made an ounce of difference.
There's 2 or 3 eating disorder centres around the country (GOSH and Addenbrokes I know) and he's just been referred to one, but our paediatrician doesn't think they will be a great help.
Our son eats Farley rusks, Cadbury milk chocolate, a certain brand of yogurt and we recently managed to get him drinking some strawberry Ensure Plus food supplements.
He has never had a vegetable/fruit or piece of meat in his life and he would fight/throw up if you tried to get anything else into him.
Luckily those rusks he eats are full of nutrients so he's physically fit and well. I must admit when the lockdown was looming I bought something like 40-50 boxes of them as running out would have pretty dire consequences for us.
I appreciate 99.9% of the population will never have come across this disorder, even many health professionals in the past have attributed it to 'fussy eating' and given us pretty useless advice accordingly.
The struggle is real though, and I totally understand what these parents are going through.
Thank you for the post.My wife and I are both experienced mental health nurses, yet there's no intervention we have tried over the years that can help him.
Nor has any child psychologist, dietician or paediatrician ever made an ounce of difference.
There's 2 or 3 eating disorder centres around the country (GOSH and Addenbrokes I know) and he's just been referred to one, but our paediatrician doesn't think they will be a great help.
Our son eats Farley rusks, Cadbury milk chocolate, a certain brand of yogurt and we recently managed to get him drinking some strawberry Ensure Plus food supplements.
He has never had a vegetable/fruit or piece of meat in his life and he would fight/throw up if you tried to get anything else into him.
Luckily those rusks he eats are full of nutrients so he's physically fit and well. I must admit when the lockdown was looming I bought something like 40-50 boxes of them as running out would have pretty dire consequences for us.
I appreciate 99.9% of the population will never have come across this disorder, even many health professionals in the past have attributed it to 'fussy eating' and given us pretty useless advice accordingly.
The struggle is real though, and I totally understand what these parents are going through.
andy118run said:
Like the girl in the story, my 10 year old son also has Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder(ARFID).
My wife and I are both experienced mental health nurses, yet there's no intervention we have tried over the years that can help him.
Nor has any child psychologist, dietician or paediatrician ever made an ounce of difference.
There's 2 or 3 eating disorder centres around the country (GOSH and Addenbrokes I know) and he's just been referred to one, but our paediatrician doesn't think they will be a great help.
Our son eats Farley rusks, Cadbury milk chocolate, a certain brand of yogurt and we recently managed to get him drinking some strawberry Ensure Plus food supplements.
He has never had a vegetable/fruit or piece of meat in his life and he would fight/throw up if you tried to get anything else into him.
Luckily those rusks he eats are full of nutrients so he's physically fit and well. I must admit when the lockdown was looming I bought something like 40-50 boxes of them as running out would have pretty dire consequences for us.
I appreciate 99.9% of the population will never have come across this disorder, even many health professionals in the past have attributed it to 'fussy eating' and given us pretty useless advice accordingly.
The struggle is real though, and I totally understand what these parents are going through.
Sorry to hear and it's always a bit of an eye-opener when you read it first hand.My wife and I are both experienced mental health nurses, yet there's no intervention we have tried over the years that can help him.
Nor has any child psychologist, dietician or paediatrician ever made an ounce of difference.
There's 2 or 3 eating disorder centres around the country (GOSH and Addenbrokes I know) and he's just been referred to one, but our paediatrician doesn't think they will be a great help.
Our son eats Farley rusks, Cadbury milk chocolate, a certain brand of yogurt and we recently managed to get him drinking some strawberry Ensure Plus food supplements.
He has never had a vegetable/fruit or piece of meat in his life and he would fight/throw up if you tried to get anything else into him.
Luckily those rusks he eats are full of nutrients so he's physically fit and well. I must admit when the lockdown was looming I bought something like 40-50 boxes of them as running out would have pretty dire consequences for us.
I appreciate 99.9% of the population will never have come across this disorder, even many health professionals in the past have attributed it to 'fussy eating' and given us pretty useless advice accordingly.
The struggle is real though, and I totally understand what these parents are going through.
Genuine question I'm not trying to be a dick.
What happens if any of those products stop being made or change recipe?
HTP99 said:
It does seem odd that kids who have diagnosed eating disorders tend to only want to eat junk.
Why does anyone eat junk and keep eating it even though they know it's bad for them? Something is triggered in the brain, probably the same kind of internal reaction as coffee - chances are these reactions (or the realisation they are there) are amplified in people with this disorder.andy118run said:
Like the girl in the story, my 10 year old son also has Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder(ARFID).
My wife and I are both experienced mental health nurses, yet there's no intervention we have tried over the years that can help him.
Nor has any child psychologist, dietician or paediatrician ever made an ounce of difference.
There's 2 or 3 eating disorder centres around the country (GOSH and Addenbrokes I know) and he's just been referred to one, but our paediatrician doesn't think they will be a great help.
Our son eats Farley rusks, Cadbury milk chocolate, a certain brand of yogurt and we recently managed to get him drinking some strawberry Ensure Plus food supplements.
He has never had a vegetable/fruit or piece of meat in his life and he would fight/throw up if you tried to get anything else into him.
Luckily those rusks he eats are full of nutrients so he's physically fit and well. I must admit when the lockdown was looming I bought something like 40-50 boxes of them as running out would have pretty dire consequences for us.
I appreciate 99.9% of the population will never have come across this disorder, even many health professionals in the past have attributed it to 'fussy eating' and given us pretty useless advice accordingly.
The struggle is real though, and I totally understand what these parents are going through.
Thanks for posting this. Saves me having to outline the issue as I understand it.My wife and I are both experienced mental health nurses, yet there's no intervention we have tried over the years that can help him.
Nor has any child psychologist, dietician or paediatrician ever made an ounce of difference.
There's 2 or 3 eating disorder centres around the country (GOSH and Addenbrokes I know) and he's just been referred to one, but our paediatrician doesn't think they will be a great help.
Our son eats Farley rusks, Cadbury milk chocolate, a certain brand of yogurt and we recently managed to get him drinking some strawberry Ensure Plus food supplements.
He has never had a vegetable/fruit or piece of meat in his life and he would fight/throw up if you tried to get anything else into him.
Luckily those rusks he eats are full of nutrients so he's physically fit and well. I must admit when the lockdown was looming I bought something like 40-50 boxes of them as running out would have pretty dire consequences for us.
I appreciate 99.9% of the population will never have come across this disorder, even many health professionals in the past have attributed it to 'fussy eating' and given us pretty useless advice accordingly.
The struggle is real though, and I totally understand what these parents are going through.
I was just wondering how far it would get, though. If they liked, say, Mars Bars and all chocolate was banned globally full stop, is death the only option or would they eventually eat something else because they were so hungry? Genuine non-pisstaking question.
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hstewie said:
hstewie said: Sorry to hear and it's always a bit of an eye-opener when you read it first hand.
Genuine question I'm not trying to be a dick.
What happens if any of those products stop being made or change recipe?
Good question. I think we could have a problem!Genuine question I'm not trying to be a dick.
What happens if any of those products stop being made or change recipe?
We do periodically try something else without much luck but the Ensure Plus supplement we introduced a few months ago was a bit of a breakthrough so we have not given up hope.
As he gets older I'm hoping his understanding will improve and there might be a tiny bit of flexibility to introduce something else.
Like the girl in the article, he hovers around the autistic spectrum, which is relatively common with this eating disorder, so he is pretty rigid and set in his ways. However, he still functions at a reasonable level, goes to a normal school, has no extra support, has friends etc.
I haven't read particularly widely about this disorder so I'm no expert but I've certainly heard of people going into adulthood with it. I did read of someone who managed to expand their food range a little but sounds like the psychology input they had was quite a bit.
He's about a year and half away from progressing to high school and I really don't want him sitting on his lunch break eating rusks so we are hoping for some sort of break though, however small. Hence us now being back in contact with his paediatrician and referral to a specialist service.
But in answer to your question - we would be right royally stuffed (so please Farleys, keep those rusks going for the foreseeable future!)
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