Anyone been successful with alternative treatments for very fussy eating?

[Belladonna666]

I'm considering taking my ds 5 to see a hypnotherapist who specialises in fussy eating in children.

But I am wondering if anyone has had any real, long lasting success from any other alternative treatments?

DS will only eat sweet food. We have tried everything to get him to eat savory and other healthy foods but we cannot fight him anymore and it is exhausting us all.

I cannot fight him anymore and it is exhausting us all - I think that is probably the problem. Don't fight him, all professionals say don't make meal times a battleground. My dc3 only ate jam sandwiches, hot dogs and yogurt from about 2 years old, to the point where I bought reduced sugar jam as she was eating so much of it! At 5 she suddenly started trying new foods and quickly began to eat almost everything we did. One thing I did was to make her usual 'meal' and put just 1 small item of new food (literally 1 slice of carrot, 1 pea size of mash potato, 1 pea/sweetcorn - you get what I mean). Children then learn to be able to have 'strange' food on their plate, then will look at it maybe even touch it, then eventually eat it. Don't mention the small new food, if he asks just tell him "ooh its just a small piece of ... it's there if you'd like to try it, if not just leave it"
You can then build up slowly at his pace. It may be a slow process or it may happen quite quickly. The key though is just to stay relaxed and calm, and know that eventually your ds will eat 'normally'.

The above advice is very good. I totally agree with calming down and almost ignoring what they do/or do not eat. I have three year old twins and have been through several phases of not eating/very fussy eating and it used to really stress me out and they seemed to react to my stress and eat even less. Introduce new foods slowly and ignore any bad reactions, even if that means leaving the room, doing the washing up etc. and getting DH (anyone calm) to supervise. Good luck.