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My autistic daughter won’t eat

ProudMama

My daughter is 6 in couple months. She’s hard to feed & prefers to eat sweets. Recently she’s refused to eat anything at all. She won’t even be persuaded with her favourite sweets to have something decent to eat. All she wants to do is to play her iPad. I give her laxido regularly cause she gets very constipated. She likes her chewable multivitamins. I also give her chewable iron & probiotic. I tried to give her Fybogel Hi-Fibre hoping that might regulate her gut but she hates taste of it. It’s so worrying. She can go without anything in her stomach for days. I’d appreciate any advice. Thank you 

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  • Hello,

    I am an adult and have the same issues and I only eat a limited selection of foods. It is such a difficult issue as I found it hard as a child to describe my sensory problems with textures and flavours. My grandmother got me to eat mashed potatoes by making it in to a ritual where we made faces in the mash so maybe this is a way to resolve the problem? I wish you well and hope your daughter eats something.

  • in reply to LucyLandRover

    Thank you for your reply and advice. On few occasions school managed to get her to eat more in couple days than what she had at home for the whole week. She must be feeding on me stressing. I will try to make meals more fun. Thank you 

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