Diet-related Conditions
Dietary Treatment Tools
Diet-related Conditions
Dietary Treatment Tools
Food refusal, sometimes called the neo-phobic phase, is a normal developmental phase when toddlers become selective about their food. Toddlers who reach this neo-phobic phase (from 1 year – 18 months) whilst only being used to a few tastes and textures, find it more difficult to accept unfamiliar foods. Often, they will only accept soft textures and sweeter bland tastes.
Gagging is much more common in young children with lack ofexperience, and although worrying, giving it attention can make it a behavioural issue. Given reassurance, encouragement, positive feedback and praise, those children with gradually broaden their experience and learn to accept new tastes and textures.
Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is a highly with anxiety and sensory processing difficulties, affecting selective eating-disorder in children which often presents those within a neurodiverse spectrum of behaviours.
Children with ARFID are hypersensitive to sensory information such as touch, look, taste and smell and can be foods. Eating of a narrow range of foods puts children at highly selective and very anxious about eating or trying new risk of nutrition deficiencies and growth faltering, which is an additional concern for parents of children with ARFID.
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