Other Food Disorders – Warning Signs

Other Food Disorders – Warning Signs
Other Food Disorders – Warning Signs

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

Other Food Disorders – Warning Signs

Fears of choking
  • Dramatic weight loss
  • Limited range of preferred foods that becomes narrower over time
    (i.e., picky eating that progressively worsens)
  • Fears of choking or vomiting
  • No body image disturbance or fear of weight again

Pica Disorder

  • The persistent eating, over a period of at least one month, of substances that are not food and do not provide nutritional value
Other Food Disorders – Warning Signs
Other Food Disorders – Warning Signs…body image disturbance
  • Typical substances ingested tend to vary with age and availability. They may include paper, soap, cloth, hair, string, wool, soil, chalk, talcum powder, paint, gum, metal, pebbles, charcoal, ash, clay, starch, or ice
Other Food Disorders – Warning Signs
Other Food Disorders – Warning Signs…eating soap

Rumination Disorder

  • Repeated regurgitation of food for a period of at least one month. Regurgitated food may be re-chewed, re-swallowed, or spit out
Other Food Disorders – Warning Signs
Other Food Disorders – Warning Signs…eating pebbles
  • If occurring in the presence of another mental disorder (e.g., intellectual developmental disorder), it is severe enough to warrant independent clinical attention
Other Food Disorders – Warning Signs
Other Food Disorders – Warning Signs

From the NEDA – Feeding Hope Website

Hector Sectzer

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