My dd is 8.5 years, she’s always had a self restricted diet, due to sensory disorders she doesn’t recognise hunger cues and so she eats on a schedule to ensure she gets the right amount of calories and nutrients. However even with this she struggles with eating and managing her weight. She often refused to eat, suffers stomach pain, takes literally hours to eat small portions of food. She now also has a medically restricted diet for abdominal migraines AND has food allergies.
We had been doing reasonably well, then I’d noticed over the course of the last month that she was starting to look thin. Ive weighed her today (in the pharmacy as we don’t have scales) and she is 126cm tall and 21kg. When she had an mri last January she was 125cm and weighed 22.2kg.
Our gp has said to see her gastro consultant, they can’t see us until 16/8. We’ve previously requested a dietician appointment but at the time she wasn’t classed as underweight so it was refused.
What can I do until then? I’m fairly knowledgeable in regards to nutrition due to DD’s difficulties but I’m hoping some others might know of things I’ve not considered.
She medically can’t eat:
Cheese
Chocolate
Citrus
Caffeine
Dairy
Gluten
She’s allergic to:
Apples
Peaches
Apricots
Plums
Kiwi
(Probably other things, awaiting tests)
Today she has had:
2 GF crumpets with peanut butter
Mango juice
Dried papaya and pineapple
1 spoon of hummus
Half a dairy free yogurt.
Dinner will be vegan GF kebabs (I’ll be putting avocado spread on it), she will probably have 3 mouthfuls and half a dairy free caramel pot.
help!
Also if anyone has any ideas as to what might be going on medically with her please feel free to wade in.