My son is starving himself - Page 3

[elmh23]

Ok, just read your update.  

Have you noticed a correlation between eating gluten for breakfast and then not eating the rest of the day?  My son will eat cereal for breakfast and then nothing else.  But if we give him an egg, he'll actually eat lunch and dinner and 2-3 snacks.  It's weird, lol.

I'm glad he's feeling better.  Hopefully you'll get some answers soon.

[One_Girl]

I am glad he is doing better.  I hope he stays well.  I noticed that you got some suggestions to put flax seed stuff in your son's drink and I wanted to mention that flax is very filling and could decrease his appetite.  Since you want him to get more good calories I think you should be cautious about putting things that will suppress his appetite in his drinks. 

[sosurreal09]

I truly mean no offense, but the ER doc did say to eliminate dairy and you clearly have not. (you said he ate pizza) hidden dairy can be a huge issue too. My DD gets pain and diarrhea when she had dairy.

Dairy can also cause a lot of other issues as well.

here is a link for hidden dairy http://www.kellymom.com/store/freehandouts/hidden-dairy01.pdf

good luck!

[mama1803]

Have you considered a zinc deficiency? 

http://www.ctds.info/zinc1.html#zinc_deficiency 

[camracrazy]

I read this before but didn't post because i thought the diarrhea and stuff had ended.

He could have a blockage in his intestine. I know this sounds weird if he has been having stools, but if they are very loose it is possible that they are passing around the blockage. This has happened to my dd. It makes her not want to eat because she feels full, and the lack of eating makes her tired. It's just a thought, and it can usually be ruled out with a simple x-ray.

[Katwoman]

Another thing to consider is probiotics.  If he has - or had - a stomach/intestine "bug", it could have thrown off his digestive balance.  Probiotics or a digestive enzyme can help with the pain of eating.  (I struggle with this and it SUCKS to have your stomach hurt when you eat and hurt when you don't eat.  You feel like you can't win.)  A naturalpath could help you with either of these supplements.

I'm sorry you're going through this!  My DD1 has always been skinny.  They were worried about her until she was a year old and then miraculously she was "the way she was".  So when she was 5 and got so skinny I could poke my fingers through her ribs, "nothing" was wrong.  The naturalpath did a full blood work up and we discovered she has hypothyroidism.  (I know that is spelled wrong.)  Now that she's on her supplements she eats.