My youngest difficult child, also 7, would sneak foods at night. Not just a prepackaged serving either, he'd eat an entire box of snacks from Sams Wholesale Club. So basically enough snack bars to feed my family of 8 for 3 days. Then he'd move onto an entire family size bag of candy and then some sodas. When we mentioned this to his pyschiatrist, he asked if diabetes ran in my DHs family. It does, so he had our son, at 6 yrs old, take a 6 hour glucose test. After the results came in, we found out he wasn't diabetic, but reactive hypoglycemic. This meant, if he tasted anything sweet, his body would start producing insulin and his brain would never know when to tell his body to stop, so he would want more sweets and continue eating. What we ended up having to do was take him off of all sugar, natural or not, as well as anything that tasted sweet, so no fake sugar either. Barely any fruits, no sweets, no diet sodas, no yogurt and no corn or corn products or starches, bread, white potatoes etc. If he is left unsupervised, he still sneaks and has recently developed an allergy to something in forbidden foods, breaks out in hives or swells up like a pumpkin. So now we watch him constantly and at night we are all stuck behind a hall door that locks so he can't get to the kitchen. With his most recent allergy development our biggest fear is his throat closing up. He still eats like a horse, but its much healthier choices and hes a bean pole.
You may request a glucose test, she could be diabetic, hypoglycemic or reactive hypoglycemic.
