Children's vitamin and Eating Disorder Advice

amother

Almond ↓

Yesterday at 8:02 am

OP this usually caused by brain inflammation and gut issues.

Vitamins that can help with restrictive eating are: Magnesium, thiamine in the form of ttfd, a humic fulvic supplement, zinc picolinate, iron from animal foods only such as beef and liver, a digestive enzyme, betaine hcl.

But it's really important to address the brain inflammation and gut issues.

Dr. Shannon Delaney is a psychiatrist who deals with eating disorders caused by brain inflammation. She's in NYC.

amother

↑ Forestgreen ↓

Yesterday at 8:04 am

amother Almond wrote:

OP this usually caused by brain inflammation and gut issues.

Vitamins that can help with restrictive eating are: Magnesium, thiamine in the form of ttfd, a humic fulvic supplement, zinc picolinate, iron from animal foods only such as beef and liver.

But it's really important to address the brain inflammation and gut issues.

Dr. Shannon Delaney is a psychiatrist who deals with eating disorders caused by brain inflammation. She's in NYC.

It’s not “usually” caused by brain inflammation. Not everyone buys into this and you can’t derail threads by saying it’s the only answer.

amother

Grape

Yesterday at 8:11 am

Sounds like arfid. My daughter was the same way. We are using Equip. It's a virtual program. We are seeing great results after a few months of therapy. Highly recommend.
My daughter was 10 when we started though, I'm not sure how young they work with...

amother

Impatiens ↓

Yesterday at 8:32 am

amother Forestgreen wrote:

It’s not “usually” caused by brain inflammation. Not everyone buys into this and you can’t derail threads by saying it’s the only answer.

It can be. I know someone going through this now. Child was diagnosed with arfid and now just got positive Lyme test.

amother

↑ Forestgreen ↓

Yesterday at 8:34 am

amother Impatiens wrote:

It can be. I know someone going through this now. Child was diagnosed with arfid and now just got positive Lyme test.

It can be. It’s not “usually”. Brain inflammation is not widespread. And people need to stop shoving it down everyone’s throats. And besides arfid and Lyme are specific things not general brain inflammation.

amother

↑ Almond ↓

Yesterday at 9:39 am

amother Forestgreen wrote:

It's a very real possibility that should not be ignored.
Lyme causes eating disorders via brain inflammation. Other infections can also cause eating disorders via brain inflammation.
Arfid is not a specific thing. It's just a name for a bunch of symptoms. It's not a root cause.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a.....nset.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a.....7382/

https://publications.aap.org/a.....ected

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a.....3770/

amother

↑ Forestgreen ↓

Yesterday at 9:40 am

amother Almond wrote:

You can stop spamming all the threads with this sketchy research. None of them prove anything.

amother

↑ Almond ↓

Yesterday at 9:46 am

amother Forestgreen wrote:

You can stop spamming all the threads with this sketchy research. None of them prove anything.

I'm not trying to prove anything, only to inform people of their options.
OP is crowdsourcing. She's allowed to know all the information that's available and she can decide what she wants to do with it.
It's not your place to tell me to stop.
If OP asks me to stop I will respect that.
And if she asks me for more information regarding this route I will try to help her to the best of my ability.

amother

↑ Forestgreen ↓

Yesterday at 9:49 am

amother Almond wrote:

You didn’t say maybe it’s this. You said it’s usually it and it’s all brain inflammation blah blah. Stop telling everyone everything is only brain inflammation. That’s a lie. And trust me no one wants your spam links on any thread. At most you can say I think it can be brain inflammation. And then back off.

amother

↑ Almond

Yesterday at 9:55 am

amother Forestgreen wrote:

You told me I was spamming after I wrote a single post.

I will take my cues from OP.

amother

Ultramarine

Yesterday at 9:56 am

My son was like this as an infant-toddler. He started losing weight. The doctors were very concerned. In addition to speech/feeding therapy we went to a GI. They discovered he had acid reflux (silent) so everything burned his throat. We had 2 nutritionists on our case. One from the GI and one from early intervention. At 3 years old we discovered he had a sensory processing disorder, so smells and textures were torture for him. Between the pain in his throat and sensory, the kid barely ate. He was put on meds for the reflux and meds to boost appetite. He'd return sweet cereals, cookies, etc. It was years of OT and feeding therapy and trying to find high calorie foods that he'd eat, but we slowly plowed through. He has feeding therapy until he was 5 or 6 (we started at a year) and OT until 9 (started at 3).

We had an amazing feeding therapist but we lived in Queens and I don't know if she'll travel to Brooklyn. She worked for the board of Ed and her name was Veronica (I don't remember her last name).

Fast forward many years. He's 20 now. He's still a picky eater, but bh willing to try new foods and eats a decent amount. He still is sensitive to some smells and textures, but as long as he's eating a normal array of foods, I am not too worried.

amother

↑ Forestgreen

Yesterday at 9:58 am

amother Almond wrote:

You told me I was spamming after I wrote a single post.

I will take my cues from OP.

It was your second post.

And posting the same list of sketchy links on every thread discussing any issue is by definition spam. The whole entire site cannot be answered by the same answer. And the fact you think it can shows that you obviously don’t know what you are talking about. And yes it’s highly annoying to see you on every thread. Once you arrive you don’t let anyone discuss any other possible answers. It’s only your sketchy links.

amother

↑ Impatiens

Yesterday at 9:59 am

amother Forestgreen wrote:

Ok so Lyme causes Neuroinflammation which caused arfid, for this child. Brain Inflammation >>>arfid. And her doctor said she's seen it many times.

amother

Oak

Yesterday at 2:07 pm

Agree with the posters who wrote that it sounds like ARFID. This is the recommended multivitamin for ARFID kids as it has no taste or smell: https://nutrigens.com/eng/nutr......html

It does not officially have a hechsher but a rav who is an expert in vitamins and kashrus told us that it's OK.

But I don't know if you can get it in the US. It's available in the UK.

amother

Foxglove

Yesterday at 2:22 pm

This vitamin is designed specifically for this purpose. A formula would be better but if you can't get the kids to take formula it's second best.

Renzo's Picky Eater Kids Multivitamin with Iron - Dissolving Kids Vitamins with Vitamin D3 & K2 and More - 60 Sugar-Free Melty Tabs, Oh-Oh-Oh Orange Flavor https://a.co/d/eusrPhz

amother

Steelblue

Yesterday at 4:05 pm

Dealing with a similar situation
Vit D and iron are most important because they affect appetite.
We found the chewy gummy bears most palatable.

What made a massive difference with my daughter was getting her to start preparing her own meals (age 6). Once she started taking, even cooking basics and I took a step back, things were way better.

I don't bribe, encourage or force. I lay the food out and then take a step back from the situation. She's eating way better than she was, bigger quantities, one or two new foods. In general happier.

amother

Rose

Yesterday at 4:07 pm

Some kids are very sensitive to taste, and are likely what is called "super-tasters". It is a proven genetic condition where people are more sensitive to certain tastes.

As a child I was very sensitive to tastes, and I also have a very sensitive gag reflux which made me gag from many foods, and this made me hesitant to try new foods. I ate very limited foods. I took a vitamin. I was fine.

As we age our taste buds become less sensitive, and eventually I was able to eat more foods. I have a noraml diet now.

As long as your child is growing and not losing weight, I wouldn't stress.

amother

Dill ↓

Yesterday at 4:14 pm

If you do need a therapist trained specializing in eating disorders...dr miriam wolosh . Definitely worth the drive from Brooklyn. If that is the route you need speak to relief they may be able to get your insurance to cover out of network.
We tried others and they did not follow protocol in training they claim to have. Please do your research because the wrong "professional' can cause more harm than good

amother

↑ OP ↓

Yesterday at 4:18 pm

amother Rose wrote:

It's very interesting you said that because I am a super taster, I did the test with those strips so I wonder if my child is as well!
I would like to thank all of you for sharing your ideas and experience. This is such a valuable thread and everyone is being so kind and understanding. I will try many ideas of this thread, the vitamin recommendations and testing too.