Published on 12, July, 2020
Please can somebody give me some advice.
I have a four year old boy with autism. He has always been a fussy eater and it is driving me up the wall now. I get hassle from my family that he doesn't eat enough. And the stuff he does eat is "kid food" so like sausages, turkey dinosaurs etc. Most of the other stuff he eats is sweet stuff so like strawberry jam or chocolate spread sandwich, which then makes his hyperactivity worse.He eats very limited amount of veg. And getting him to try anything new is near on impossible!
It's all to do with how it looks and texture.
In the medical profession who is there that could help me with this?
All of this fussy eating makes me wonder whether there is something real that the kids are reacting to. I seem to react to tomatoes and apples and have been trying to work out what is going on. I've found something called Oral Allergy Syndrome, factsheet from Manchester hospital here www.uhsm.nhs.uk/.../AC - Oral Allergy Syndromes Factsheet.pdf
I'm planning to go the GPnext week to see if they can confirm this with a test.