[tri-med] Re: oral sensitivity

My daughter also has a very strong oral sensitivity, although she was not a 
preemie, nor has she ever been tube fed.  She is 23 months old and has not let 
solid food in to her mouth since she was 7 months old.  She gags and throws up 
when I brush her teeth.
Recently she has begun daycare a few hours each week to help her with 
socialization without me being present, and she has started to "touch" yogurt 
and pudding, but when it comes in contact with her mouth she will no longer 
play.> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 16:20:24 +0000> From: basil1_2000@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
Subject: [tri-med] oral sensitivity> To: tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Hi Everyone,> 
> My son's has oral sensitivity and gags sometimes on food when it has been 
mashed. He was born 3 months prem and was very poorly so we did spend 6 months 
in hospital with him when he was born. He is nearly 4 now and is doing well, he 
has a few issues like sight problems, very delayed speech, not walking etc, etc 
but considering his start he is well. Something that is bugging me at the 
moment though is his eating and gagging. I read somewhere the other day that in 
a study of prem kids that had spent alot of time interbated or with a nasal 
gastric tube they had big oral sensitivity. Do any of your kids have this 
issue? Everytime he seems to be making leaps forward with moving onto lumpier 
consistencies he then leaps back again after a few weeks and we are back to 
mashing or pureeing. He also has alot of what we call 'ups and downs', he had 
horrendous reflux for the first couple of years but it gradually got better but 
I think it is still there - my husband> thinks its 'just wind' but this just 
wind makes him sick sometimes or he has difficulty getting the burp up - he 
does get alot of burpy wind - why? I am not sure. I have notied of late that he 
gulps his drinks so I only give him small amounts know and he asks (signs) for 
lots of drinks during meals almost like he is washing his food down. The speech 
therapist is driving me insane with his speech and feeding therapy - the other 
day I nearly broke down and asked here was there something else she would 
bedoing if my son was her child she said that we as parents were doing 
everything!!!!> Any suggestions / tips greatly accepted as I am ripping my hair 
out!> > Katy son t8 mosaic.> > > 
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