Hi! We can thank many people on the board (Becky, Janette, Sue, and many others ) for bringing this to light for its connection to GERD.

My son Iain definately has had food aversion and still suffers from food texture aversions. Each one of my sons have some degree of sensory intergration issues (each one is different) and all three were GERDlings.

If you have more than one issue, please post them and whether or not you are receiving treatment and from whom for it.

Hopefully this forum will streamline some people who have questions related to this and will empower us all to help each other.

Thanks, Janette for doing this! :D

Leigh

Currently Sam doens't have any aversions - although he has started to stop taking food from a spoon?? Not sure why probably just a phase :)

I'm not sure yet, so I voted "other."

So far, Ian can't stand to have his feet uncovered for sleeping. They sweat a LOT (possible hyperhidrosis) and I think they must get chilly.

Also for awhile he had a thing about slippery foods (like banana pieces) and not wanting to eat them. He'd just push them angrily away on his tray. I haven't tried again lately (too busy) and have been sticking with dry foods like cereals and dehydrated apples and breads.

He does go around tasting everything else, though! He likes to taste shoes, feet, toes, chairs, the floor, ANYthing he comes in contact with. My other kids were not like that at all. He's really oral to the point that it makes me wonder why.

I chose more then one as Samson is really sensitive to noise (unless he is the one making it, lol), loud voices, a bang, he loves music as long as it is not too loud, loud cars or trucks etc., other kids being loud, even loud toys, all cause him to cry & need to picked up & comforted.

He also hates having his feet covered while sleeping & normally has the covers kicked off in his sleep before I am even out of the room.

He is fussy about food textures too & will spit back out anything he doesn't like the feel off. He is still eating mostly purees if I try to leave it a bit chunkier he just gags on it & spits it back out & then won't eat any. He is doing ok with dry stuff, like rice puff cereal & Gerbers new Veggie Puffs, but things like pieces of melon or other fruit that he eats pureed get spit back out.

Great topic Leigh :)

I chose more than one b/c Emma is very sensitive to loud noises but yet can't sleep if it's totally quiet, (we use a noise machine and her cool mist humidifier, on the low setting, seem to help with that). She also will SCREAM if someone with strong perfume is holding her. (We've told my hubby's mother this, but she still wears it....TONS of it). GRRRR..... :x

Emma has really sweaty feet too, but not when she's sleeping....they get nice and dry and warm. Hmmm.... :? She can't stand socks or shoes on her feet or to have her feet covered up with blankets. She kicks her socks off at night. (Makes it hard to keep the house warm enough so she can sleep comfortably). I still put socks on her, (I can't help it, it's a Mommy thing to cover your kids up), but she has them kicked off in no time.

Emma is still bottle-fed with some solids and cereal during the day, but we haven't tried finger food yet. However, like lucyinaz's Ian, she mouths every toy she has. But, she hates velcro on toys, (some of her toys attach to a mobile in this fashion), and she will gag if the velcro touches her tongue.

Emma does not receive treatment for any of the above, but, as an aside, our doctor thinks Em may have Sandifer's Syndrome, (we showed him pictures and video of her eating and sleeping)....she wildly contorts her body during sleep and eating.....it almost looks like she's doing a backflip when she's sleeping..... He wants us to bring it up when we go to the ped G.I. in November. I don't know if Sandifer's has anything to do with sensory issues, but even being medicated her reflux still bothers her enough to sleep in that unusual position.

Zoee doesn't have any even though she would not take feed from a spoon or fork if i am trying to feed her. It takes alot of trys to get it to happen. i am told by her feeding specialist that it is okay for her to feed herself with her fingers , just put the spoon beside her. Now Hobbes has alot of sensory intergration issues. He always had to have skin to skin contact, chewing on everything( we have a tube that he can chew to help stop the need to chew on everything that the Ot has given us for him.) Water, he has a strong desire to be in it all the time. He is the cleanest boy around. Even if he is just drinking it, he has to be touching it somehow. It is hard to explain.The need to be under blanket all the time. You can't touch his head to wash his hair, cut it, or brush it. As for food, Hobbes does have alot of issues as well but no one seems concern by it. I am told that Austic children have food aversion and are picky eater. He can't eat soups, he wouldn't eat any thing new. It is hard to get him to eat anything but fries, smile faces, apples, milk, cheese and he will eat yogurt but it can only be red or blue(strawbeery, cherry, raspberry andblueberry) Hobbes has not gain any more than a lb in the past year and a half.

Sorry I got long winded there!!! So I would have to vote other since there are many issues with Hobbes who was a refluxer as well.

MMMM, for some reason, I am posted as a guest. I did log in. I would have to try again! :?

Hi Guest, Shannon, I knew that was you.....Zoee and Hobbes gave it away! LOL


I wanted to mention a really great book for those that like to read. I got it out of the library shortly after Shae was born.

THE OUT OF SYNC CHILD - RECOGNIZING AND COPING WITH SENSORY INTEGRATION DYSFUNCTION.

CAROL STOCK KFRANOWITZ, M.A.
THE BERKLEY PUBLISHING GROUP, 1998

best wishes
Jean

Yup...Zoee and Hobbes gave you away, Shannon. You just can't hide around here!

Many people have recommended that book to me, Jean, including Evan's OT. I went out to buy it this week, but the book store wasn't opening for another hour. I intend to try another time when I'm kid-free.

A few of Evan's sensory issues come to mind right away, and I'll have to edit later if I think of more. He has food, texture and oral aversions, as well as problems with some clothing textures, and bright light. He cannot be outside without dark sun glasses.

Evan was followed by an OT, an ST, and a dietitian (feeding therapy) to help with the oral aversions and the texture issues. His present OT is helping me to discover more about his Tactile Integration Dysfunction. Now that I'm fully recovered from my surgery, I'll have to get back at the joint compressions, the (compression) vest, the rough wrestling, etc.

Another good book ..I can't remember the author is called...Raising a sensory smart child.

My oldest GERDling Braden who is two has fleeting sensory issues. He NEVER ate baby food cause of texture but the OT couldn't ever help because he would eat the desserts but nothing else and just gag if I tried to put ANYTHIGN in his mouth. Yet he would chew on anything he put in his ownmouth.
Now at 2 1/2 he freaks out if I sing along with the radio in the car or dance to music. He mainly only eats pasta and I have to put calorie powder one EVERYTHING because he still doesn't eat much...(he was FTT)

Good use of that short form, Lindsey! :wink:

Hi all,

That is great that someone has asked this question. In the beginning Gabriella would scream bloody murder when we were giving her a bath. I later found out that she does not like the water to be warm, she likes it more on the cool side now she loves her bath. :D She has a food aversion for sure. She is 100% tube fed and hates anything in her mouth. She does not even put her own toys in her mouth. She also hates to be held for a long time. No one could ever understand that. We have a hard time when the therapist come to the house to do her therapy because she does not like to be touched by any of them. So how do we move on? It is just very frustrating. She also seems not to like loud noises but could sleep through my nephews' screams.

I am curious if anyone else has a child with an abnormal fear of heights. I do not mean hanging off a cliff fear, but more like a fear of being lifted up and put on a table or being put on your shoulders for a walk,etc. My second son is extremely fearful of this. I have done some research on this and there are different types of sensory itergration issues. Each one of my sons has had symptoms of SI and all seem different.

Iain just seems to have the texture and swallowing issues, but he also will freak still for clothing changes.

Leigh