[Dysphagia] food refusal

[kbreese at stny.rr.com (kbreese)]

Does he get OT therapy for SI?
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From: <pressmah@sjhmc.org>
To: <Amy.Nelson@dadhc.nsw.gov.au>; <dysphagia@b9.com>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 11:37 AM
Subject: RE: [Dysphagia] food refusal


> You seem to have implemented many good ideas.  One issue that comes to 
> mind
> is that if the child is not self feeding with the spoon he may be 
> resisting
> someone feeding him, not the mashed foods.  If this is the case working on
> self feeding skills with a spoon may be helpful.  Sometimes I've even had
> children allow me to continue to feed them as long as they have a spoon 
> and
> do some of it themselves.  Hilda Pressman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NELSON Amy [mailto:Amy.Nelson@dadhc.nsw.gov.au]
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 8:16 PM
> To: dysphagia@b9.com
> Subject: [Dysphagia] food refusal
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> Hi everyone - I'm hoping someone might have a better suggestion for this
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> mum than I have been able to come up with!!  I'm seeing twins, born very
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> prem, both still on oxygen at 2yrs chronological (about 20mths
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> corrected) and medicated (losec) for reflux.  Both were fed via ng for
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> some time, but progressed steadily on the road to oral feeding.  Now the
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> twin who had been doing better orally (now fully oral!) has quite
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> suddenly started to refuse pureed/mashed foods, or indeed anything from
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> a spoon.  He eats a range of finger foods, which he manages quite well
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> but doesn't really eat enough of and so requires pediasure which he
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> drinks from a bottle.  He did go through some hypersensitivity issues
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> related to long term tube feeding and still shows some aversion to
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> touching certain textures.  I have considered that he may prefer the
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> increased/different sensory input provided by the finger foods he likes
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> and thought that maybe improving the sensory components of the spoon
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> foods, and have also considered that this may very well be just a 'two
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> year old' thing that may pass, and have suggested that mum continue to
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> offer and expose him to a range of foods and not force the issue too
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> much, and also that she encourage his active participation in the meal
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> as much as is practical (he loves having his own spoon, but won't put it
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> in his mouth)... Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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> Amy
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