Six-Year-Old Boy Treated for Anorexia

Picky Eating: 6 year old boy with anorexia

Picky Eating: 6 year old boy with anorexia — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:04:32 GMT

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re: Six-Year-Old Boy Treated for Anorexia

Jules — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:41:21 GMT

This boy does not and did not have anorexia nervosa. Anyone who has AN is terrified of gaining weight, food, fat, calories. Being fussy and eating only dairylee cheese is NOT anorexia nervosa.

re: Six-Year-Old Boy Treated for Anorexia

Lorraine — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:31:50 GMT

There is actually something called Infantile Anorexia. It is a scary and frustrating phenomenon.

re: Six-Year-Old Boy Treated for Anorexia

autismvox — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:11:31 GMT

Food selectivity is not uncommon in autistic children----many parents note that their children will only eat chicken nuggets, or macaroni and cheese, or pizza, for instance.

re: Six-Year-Old Boy Treated for Anorexia

jen — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:07:05 GMT

can this be anorexia if it started when he was two? certainly no two year old thinks he's fat and deicides to only eat cheese spread in order to lose weight? right?

it just doesn't seem possible for a two year old to a) have body image issues and b) have the skills to think up a plan about how to lose weight. do two years olds even understand the concept of weight loss?

this is weird to me.