Re: kindergarten eating - our solution

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Matt can't eat at school. He can't eat in groups, even at home. It

is too distracting for him. So he eats lunch in the nurse's

office. I have 2 Danamal yogurts mixed with Duocal. He drinks it

fast and then reads a book. When his class is done in the

lunchroom, they pick him up on their way out to recess. It has

worked great. He needs the calories or his behavior is in the

toilet and since the school/teachers have seen this, they are more

than willing to make this work.

Beth

> Hi,

> I thought I'd chime in here on the kindergarten eating dilemma.

> My daughter, belle, started kindergarten this fall and she too

> has lost about a pound. I've alerted her lunchtime teachers about

> her need to eat, they assure me they encourage her, and even

> allow her to take a portion of her lunch up to the play yard to

> finish while the other kids play. However, her boxes still come

> home mostly uneaten and boy do we pay for it later in the

> afternoon with her moodiness.

>

> She had been on periactin for about 1 1/2 years. It was

> successful in stimulating her appetite, and I feel also

> responsible for her first ever catch up growth. We decided to give

> her a drug vacation this summer, just to see what would happen.

> Well the appetite immediately slackened. But the overall change

> in her energy, personality, ability to focus, engage and

> communicate was so positive that we haven't wanted to dope

> her back up. She's a kid for whom periactin's side effects are

> pretty severe.

>

> But now here we are facing the reality that she is not able to eat

> what she needs to without being medicated. The medication

> makes her eat. It also makes her sleep, and for a very active

little

> girl, a good night sleep is heartily welcomed. I am sad, however.

> I have been so happy to have belle " back, " and am now I

> resigned to the fact that she needs periactin and will have to

> again be doped up. We will resume dosage tomorrow evening.

> Hopefully we will soon see some improvement in her

> kindergarten eating.

>

> Pamela

> mom to belle 6 years (last Sunday!) 43 inches 34 pounds