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Gaylen

I am intrigued by the trigeminal/cranial stimulation and would love to learn

more about it. I am a speech-language pathologist who works with kids who

have feeding problems and am always looking for more tricks to add to my

bag! The OT that I works with was also not aware of this technique. We both

use various sensory stimulation strategies, so we'd love to learn

more--anything you can share? or resources on this?

thanks!

Ann

>

> 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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