Hi My 5 1/2 yr old son is eating very little. He choked two weeks ago and then he started trying to make himself choke by rolling food round in his mouth and laughing so I said "Do not play with your food" he asked me why I said it was dangerous he said why and I said because it can stop you breathing he said what happens if you don't breathe I said you could die, especially if it is something hard. Maybe this was too strong but I was panicking seeing him "experimenting" with choking. Especially as he has little awareness of danger.
Anyway bout a week ago he started to not eat anything unless it was liquid or very soft and spitting it out through his teeth and swallowing tiny amounts and looking very sad. I got upset and cried and we kind of fed off each other and it all escalated with us both upset. He then told me "Mummy you maked it worse with all your horrible stories" he still wouldn't eat so after another day of him looking so sad and me feeling very frightened of how to get him to eat I said I had made it all up no you won;t die just eat please.
I've now got him to eat his favourite foods he will eat ice cream, bread and nutella, chocolate wafers, crisps, pancakes and maple syrup, yoghurt and he had some eggy bread also some garlic bread at a party. However any "real food" like pizza, mashed potatoes, bacon, sausages foods he normally loves he spits out and says "Mummy I find food difficult it was because of those horrible stories that weren't true".
He has had a cold which started about this time he choked and this evening I looked in his mouth and one of his tonsils looks swollen. My Mum saw this too and she asked him is your throat sore and he said "yes" but he had not said anything previously. So could it be to do with this and he is just confused and repeating words he does not understand. Could it all just be a sore throat?
I wonder if it is worth taking him to a doctor tomorrow and see if he has an infection and if this is causing the eating problem (being a detective here?)
Coolcazzie
