[octobermom]

: Its been oh I lost count but lately all my DD will eat are carbs.
At least any meal we eat together. I'll fix meals I'll fix meals with foods I know she likes but yet its just carbs. Like today we had stewed cabbage, baked chicken, and some homemade bread for dinner. She likes chicken she likes cabbage (if its crunchy and I purposly kept some that way for her) and she likes bread..
She ate bread refused the cabbage ttoally did allow some chicken to be put on her plate then fussed and fussed about it. I even tried offering her like butter or almond butter on her bread trying to at least add some protein she refused. We've had countless meals like this. Even her school lunches come back uneatten except say bread/crackers and maybe carrots we get back meats apples grapes pb and J sandwhiches don't get touched ect.. Shes just wants carbs (as in breads) and water.

: We even took her to get some pizza thinking surely she'd at least get in the cheese and meats.. She picked off the toppings and just chewed on the crusts

. THe other day I found a loaf of bread hidden under her bed 1/2 gone..I know kids are picky but this can't be normal weve delt wit hher pickiness for years but this just makes no sense...

BTW shes is 6.5 years.

Deanna

 

[limabean]

What about muffins? That way the other stuff (carrots, zucchini, banana, or whatever) will be baked right into the bread and can't be picked out. Not ideal, but it might help a little in the meantime.

 

[HappilyEvrAfter]

Do you think maybe it's making her stomach hurt? Maybe an allergy or something?

 

[octobermom]

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Originally Posted by limabean What about muffins? That way the other stuff (carrots, zucchini, banana, or whatever) will be baked right into the bread and can't be picked out. Not ideal, but it might help a little in the meantime.

No shes hates these same with cake I can't hide foods she just wants pain ordiniary bread.

Deanna

 

[octobermom]

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Originally Posted by HappilyEvrAfter Do you think maybe it's making her stomach hurt? Maybe an allergy or something?

What every thing else in the world except plain bread? Shes has never complained of one.

Deanna

 

[limabean]

What would happen if you "ran out" of bread/crackers for a day? Would she just not eat anything?

 

[octobermom]

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Originally Posted by limabean What would happen if you "ran out" of bread/crackers for a day? Would she just not eat anything?

yes she will in fact starve her self than eat unwanted foods. She has in past done this in the past right up to the point of her needing a feeding tube put in. I'd love to say now it would be diffrent but I can't for sure say it would be.

BTW we have run out we ran out last week I had to wait for another pay day she just drank a lot of water...

Deanna

 

[FernG]

I'm so sorry that you and your DD are strugling with this.

I read about a teenager in the UK who would only eat potatoe chips. It turned out that she had severe silent reflux which caused a lot of food aversions. Since this had been going on since infancy, she didn't know it was abnormal and never complained about the pain. She started eating better after she was medicated and went through therapy to address the food aversions.

 

[confustication]

Not much advice, but a lot of understanding. My 7yo dd is very much the same way. It's infuriating when people suggest witholding what she will eat to make her eat other things as she will make herself ill (and need a feeding tube as well) before she'll give in.

I don't know if there's an answer for it. Sometimes I just go with it, and sometimes I push hard for her to eat other things. She's 7 1/2 and has a BMI of about 8- she's very underweight, but short of hospitalization and a feeding tube, there's not much to be done for it.

Happily, she's eating the banana bread I made at her request... small victory, but it's something!

 

[octobermom]

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Originally Posted by FernG I'm so sorry that you and your DD are strugling with this. I read about a teenager in the UK who would only eat potatoe chips. It turned out that she had severe silent reflux which caused a lot of food aversions. Since this had been going on since infancy, she didn't know it was abnormal and never complained about the pain. She started eating better after she was medicated and went through therapy to address the food aversions.

I remember seeing a story about that (maybe not the eact same but the same idea) DD over the years has been tested for everything she has some food aversions due to issues with swallowing and her apraxia and has been in therapy. Honestly she'd improved so much we thought these extreme strikes were in the past. Of course when this first started we thought oh its a phase... Its now though gettting into the need to intervine worry stage. I have an apointment with her school I have no idea what shes is doing at school with her lunches I'd love to know. If shes at least eatting something them I can relax a bit.. DD thankfully is at at very good weight right now shes around 44lbs at last check at 6.5 years and about 47 inches. Thin but not underweight.

Deanna

 

[LynnS6]

Has she had feeding therapy? I wonder if that would help - given that she's got oral/motor issues with the apraxia. I wonder if the two are related (carbs are easier to deal with? Not so weird in terms of texture?)

The book "Just Take a Bite" is supposed to be good.

 

[BellinghamCrunchie]

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Originally Posted by LynnS6 Has she had feeding therapy? I wonder if that would help - given that she's got oral/motor issues with the apraxia. I wonder if the two are related (carbs are easier to deal with? Not so weird in terms of texture?) The book "Just Take a Bite" is supposed to be good.

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The other thing to consider is a wheat/gluten allergy or sensitivity, if she is craving breads above all else. I was a very thin child and I loved breads, and it turned out I have an allergy to wheat (its common to crave what you are sensitive to sometimes).

 

[LynnS6]

Another idea: Cornell Bread -- it's higher in protein (you could make it with whole wheat flour too). It'd be a small step in the right direction:
http://www.cornell.edu/search/index....acts&q=&id=188

 

[octobermom]

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Originally Posted by BellinghamCrunchie : The other thing to consider is a wheat/gluten allergy or sensitivity, if she is craving breads above all else. I was a very thin child and I loved breads, and it turned out I have an allergy to wheat (its common to crave what you are sensitive to sometimes).

Yes on the feeding therapy and yes sehs been fully tested for all wheat/gluten allergies and has none. FWIW while she has always say liked bread this ultra obsession is recent it started around February and its getting worse shes is now issolating the one food and pretty much ONLY eatting it.

Deanna

 

[JamieCatheryn]

Any chance of a yeast issue fueling these cravings? Yeast like to demand carbs and sugars of you.

 

[octobermom]

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Originally Posted by JamieCatheryn Any chance of a yeast issue fueling these cravings? Yeast like to demand carbs and sugars of you.

What would be the signs?

Deanna

 

[JamieCatheryn]

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Originally Posted by octobermom What would be the signs? Deanna

Here's a long list of stuff it might do: http://www.stopyeast.com/candida-symptoms.html