Re: Refusing to eat/Gaylen

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Gaylen, is Periactin a prescription medicine or is it OTC? Is it

something that pediatricians prescribe/recommend to help with food

sensitivities? Will Dr. G prescribe it?

I'm at my wit's end with the food/texture issues. The kid can't even

eat a hamburger because of the texture. Last week he made a valiant

attempt at eating a burger, but brought it all back up after eating

half. I've tried trigeminal/cranial stimulation, but it's hard to be

consistent with it on top of all the other activites/therapies we're

doing on a daily basis.

TIA,

Donna

>

> The absolutely best thing we found to address eating problems due to

oral

> sensitivities was regular trigeminal/cranial stimulation. This is

extremely

> helpful at dampening all types of other sensory sensitivities as

well. It can

> be done by anyone and should be done three or more times a day

regularly

> until the child's over-sensitivities are regulated. To do this,

you provide a

> very light, tickling finger touch all over the face, head and neck

for a full

> minute, followed by a deep, finger pressure over the same areas for

another

> minute. Most sensitive kids cannot tolerate even a few seconds of

the light

> touch at first so build up slowly by doing a quick light touch

followed by

> longer deep pressure and expand the length of time for the light

touch very

> gradually.

>

> The other miracle thing I've found for those refusing to eat is the

allergy

> drug Periactin. This is typically used for allergies affecting the

> gastro-intestinal tract. Interestingly, it works with seratonin

instead of histamine.

> I wish a doctor had recommended it when my son was 3 and had first

started

> his eating problems. It would have saved over ten years of the

enormous

> grief we went through trying to get the kid to eat.

> Gaylen

>

>

>

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>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi-

We too are very curious about the Periactin. We have stuggled with

Bobby's lack of eating for what seems like forever. Our greatest

issues is that he won't even try things. If he tried them and spit

them out, then we'd know we were dealing with a texture/taste

sensitivity, but he won't even put the food in his mouth.

I have tried doing some of the stimulation therapy, but we haven't

seen any changes. His diet is so limited- everything soy based- corn

flakes, banana, yogurt, pudding and sometimes he'll eat pizza or

french toast, but it's a constant battle. Does anyone have

any 'tricks' or strategies to get kids to try foods? Bobby get

Speech/feeding and OT everyday, and nothing is seeming to help.

Thanks in advance for you help.

Jenn

> >

> > The absolutely best thing we found to address eating problems due

to

> oral

> > sensitivities was regular trigeminal/cranial stimulation. This

is

> extremely

> > helpful at dampening all types of other sensory sensitivities as

> well. It can

> > be done by anyone and should be done three or more times a day

> regularly

> > until the child's over-sensitivities are regulated. To do this,

> you provide a

> > very light, tickling finger touch all over the face, head and

neck

> for a full

> > minute, followed by a deep, finger pressure over the same areas

for

> another

> > minute. Most sensitive kids cannot tolerate even a few seconds

of

> the light

> > touch at first so build up slowly by doing a quick light touch

> followed by

> > longer deep pressure and expand the length of time for the light

> touch very

> > gradually.

> >

> > The other miracle thing I've found for those refusing to eat is

the

> allergy

> > drug Periactin. This is typically used for allergies affecting

the

> > gastro-intestinal tract. Interestingly, it works with seratonin

> instead of histamine.

> > I wish a doctor had recommended it when my son was 3 and had

first

> started

> > his eating problems. It would have saved over ten years of the

> enormous

> > grief we went through trying to get the kid to eat.

> > Gaylen

> >

> >

> >

> > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in

shape.

>

> > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?

NCID=aolcmp00300000002489

> >

> >

> >