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Wed, Sep 21 2011, 2:54 pm
An article to put things into perspective for moms with kids who have allergies.
This Toddler Won’t Eat -- and Never Has
By Carol Bengle Gilbert | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Tue, Sep 20, 2011
If you think you've got problems because your toddler "won't eat anything," you should talk to Lisa Tesoriero of Sydney. Her 19-month-old son Alex won't eat anything and never has. The little boy is fed through a tube in his stomach.
After hearing Lisa's story, your own picky eater might seem almost flexible. Tesoriero told Fox News her son was born prematurely and had an oxygen tube covering his face for a year. As a result, he has developed a psychological aversion to touch in his mouth area and refuses food.
The problem is so unusual that Tesoriero says it's hard to find support.
New-Vis.com says any premature infant using a feeding tube may develop a hypersensitive response to oral stimulation. In the absence of positive oral stimulation, the baby learns to anticipate discomfort when something approaches his mouth. Eating aversion may develop. While perceived as a behavioral response, the aversion may actually stem in part from subtle gastrointestinal and sensorimotor deficiencies.
Is there anything harder than having a child who's an extremely picky eater or a noneater in the house?
Water Allergy
Teenager Ashleigh Morris of Melbourne is allergic to water. Her condition, aquagenic urticaria, causes her to break out in sore, red, itchy lumps when she's exposed to water through bathing or swimming. Morris apparently developed her water allergy as a histamine response to penicillin. But unlike other histamine-triggered allergies, water allergy doesn't respond to antihistamines.
Water allergy affects one in 230 million people. One English woman suffering from water allergy is unable to drink water or juices because they make her throat blister. The only fluid she drinks is Diet Coke. She limits her showering to 10 seconds per week. When her baby was little, she even had to guard against his dribbling on her.
Exercise Allergy
Another unusual allergy is exercise-induced anaphylaxis. Imagine trying to get a gym teacher to accept your child is at risk of death from jogging or running. For unknown reasons, jogging and running are the primary triggers of exercise-induced anaphylaxis. But this allergic reaction to exercise often occurs selectively, after eating certain foods.
Some of the earliest reports pinpointed celery as a suspect but only when eaten before exercising. The effects of exercise-induced anaphylaxis are similar to peanut allergy- wheezing, hives, breathing difficulty, blood pressure drop, itching, nausea and headache.
These stories tend to put "my toddler won't eat" into perspective, no?
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