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<blockquote data-quote="Giulia" data-source="post: 548147" data-attributes="member: 14306"><p>Ok, I have sensory issues which makes eating very hard. </p><p></p><p>As always as I can remember, stress makes me lose weight because I become sensitive +++++++ to taste. </p><p>Swallowing becomes hard because I feel like a node in my throat. </p><p>It makes me think about it because he refuses the pedishake drink (I tried such drinks, and they can taste very strong. I tried Fortimel, and it tastes very string even when flavored : I could feel the dextrine maltose falvor, and not everyone likes its taste). </p><p></p><p>What helps me most is leaving easy to eat food, like finger food, chocolate cream... Even if they are not socially acceptable meals, but something he can nibble through the day. Even if it means nibbling all day. You'll think about socially acceptable meals later. </p><p>Don't hesitate to go with smoothies, milk shakes.... You can also try small verrines (for appetizers) as we call here and fill it with nutritious but what he can handle at taste. </p><p>You can also sweeten the taste of a strong dish with soft cream (Crème fraiche in France). </p><p></p><p>Does your DS have difficulties with social cues ? With noise ? </p><p>It can explain why meals are tedious for him. </p><p>The simple fact he eats only with one person can help him to eat. </p><p></p><p>What also can be a problem with eating is when I have a small plate with lot of food : I am easily overhelmed by a lot of food to eat. </p><p>So, you can do exactly the opposite of what RD say : little food in a big plate, because he will be less discouraged by the quantity. </p><p></p><p></p><p>I have always been at the 3rd percentile or even below if we think about BMI. But if we see about height and weight, I was at the third percentile.</p><p>BMI-centile are very misleading : a child can be short and thin but be very healthy and he will be labeled as "failure to thrive" whereas he is short and thin like his parents. </p><p>I tried the BMI-centile with my growth chart as a child and I superposed the BMI on a current chart (while taking all measures from my childhood). It labeled me as "failure to thrive" during all my childhood whereas my analysis were perfectly textbook (no illness found). If I worked as a model or an actress as a child, I would had been considered as "anorexic" whereas I have always been like my paternal grandmother, short, thin and lean, with three perfectly healthy children (my father and his two older sisters). All the specialists we saw as a child were categoric about ruling out an illness, furthermore an ED : I was meant to be short, thin, gracile but healthy apart ADHD and a Single Sided Deafness. </p><p>So, take the BMI-centile charts for what they are : a measure, a comparison with the general population in a Gauss curve, a statistic. A child can be off chart and perfectly healthy, and a child can be in chart whereas unhealthy. </p><p>Be careful, BMI are more and more considered as very misleading : a person with the same BMI can have a very different frame. So, someone with a BMI = 30 can be very tall and muscular (how many rugbymen have a BMI = 30 whereas they are nearly only muscles ?) or very short, sloppy and without energy. </p><p>On the opposite side, you can have a BMI = 17 (considered as "underweight") whereas you eat 6 nutritious meals every day, your analysis are perfectly normal and you are not hyperactive, and another person can have a BMI = 17 whereas she is wasting muscle due to denutrition. </p><p>BMI does not take into account the bone frame (of course, if you have thin bones, you won't weight the same as if you have a large bone frame), neither the muscle mass, so it can falsely label someone as "dangerously underweight" and a child as "failure to thrive". </p><p>BMI is used because it's a very simple and quick count to do, with little needed information (you have no need to measure any size with a meter), but it overly simplistic and it can lead to wrong diagnosis of "failure to thrive".</p><p>Also, why does the lowest BMI threshold for "healthy weight" varies from official organization to another ? Why is, for an organization, lowest BMI threshold for "healthy weight" is 18.5, for another it is 20, for another it is 19 etc etc... ? </p><p>So, take these measures with a lot of detachment, because they lead to a lot of unnecessary worries. </p><p></p><p>Take care</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Giulia, post: 548147, member: 14306"] Ok, I have sensory issues which makes eating very hard. As always as I can remember, stress makes me lose weight because I become sensitive +++++++ to taste. Swallowing becomes hard because I feel like a node in my throat. It makes me think about it because he refuses the pedishake drink (I tried such drinks, and they can taste very strong. I tried Fortimel, and it tastes very string even when flavored : I could feel the dextrine maltose falvor, and not everyone likes its taste). What helps me most is leaving easy to eat food, like finger food, chocolate cream... Even if they are not socially acceptable meals, but something he can nibble through the day. Even if it means nibbling all day. You'll think about socially acceptable meals later. Don't hesitate to go with smoothies, milk shakes.... You can also try small verrines (for appetizers) as we call here and fill it with nutritious but what he can handle at taste. You can also sweeten the taste of a strong dish with soft cream (Crème fraiche in France). Does your DS have difficulties with social cues ? With noise ? It can explain why meals are tedious for him. The simple fact he eats only with one person can help him to eat. What also can be a problem with eating is when I have a small plate with lot of food : I am easily overhelmed by a lot of food to eat. So, you can do exactly the opposite of what RD say : little food in a big plate, because he will be less discouraged by the quantity. I have always been at the 3rd percentile or even below if we think about BMI. But if we see about height and weight, I was at the third percentile. BMI-centile are very misleading : a child can be short and thin but be very healthy and he will be labeled as "failure to thrive" whereas he is short and thin like his parents. I tried the BMI-centile with my growth chart as a child and I superposed the BMI on a current chart (while taking all measures from my childhood). It labeled me as "failure to thrive" during all my childhood whereas my analysis were perfectly textbook (no illness found). If I worked as a model or an actress as a child, I would had been considered as "anorexic" whereas I have always been like my paternal grandmother, short, thin and lean, with three perfectly healthy children (my father and his two older sisters). All the specialists we saw as a child were categoric about ruling out an illness, furthermore an ED : I was meant to be short, thin, gracile but healthy apart ADHD and a Single Sided Deafness. So, take the BMI-centile charts for what they are : a measure, a comparison with the general population in a Gauss curve, a statistic. A child can be off chart and perfectly healthy, and a child can be in chart whereas unhealthy. Be careful, BMI are more and more considered as very misleading : a person with the same BMI can have a very different frame. So, someone with a BMI = 30 can be very tall and muscular (how many rugbymen have a BMI = 30 whereas they are nearly only muscles ?) or very short, sloppy and without energy. On the opposite side, you can have a BMI = 17 (considered as "underweight") whereas you eat 6 nutritious meals every day, your analysis are perfectly normal and you are not hyperactive, and another person can have a BMI = 17 whereas she is wasting muscle due to denutrition. BMI does not take into account the bone frame (of course, if you have thin bones, you won't weight the same as if you have a large bone frame), neither the muscle mass, so it can falsely label someone as "dangerously underweight" and a child as "failure to thrive". BMI is used because it's a very simple and quick count to do, with little needed information (you have no need to measure any size with a meter), but it overly simplistic and it can lead to wrong diagnosis of "failure to thrive". Also, why does the lowest BMI threshold for "healthy weight" varies from official organization to another ? Why is, for an organization, lowest BMI threshold for "healthy weight" is 18.5, for another it is 20, for another it is 19 etc etc... ? So, take these measures with a lot of detachment, because they lead to a lot of unnecessary worries. Take care [/QUOTE]
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