Posted on 12/03/2009 3:33:25 PM PST by freedommom
Like many toddlers, Zak Hessey was a fussy eater who refused his mother's healthy home cooking. Concerned about his falling weight, his parents sought the advice of doctors. That simple act triggered a shocking chain of events that led to the youngster being put into foster care for four months. Paul and Lisa Hessey believe in the long-term benefits of healthy eating and rejected advice to feed their two-year-old son high-calorie snack food To their horror, social workers put Zak into foster care 'to assess his needs' and allegedly threatened the couple with the loss of their parental rights if they fought the decision in court. 'I was absolutely devastated, I broke down in tears,' recalled Mrs Hessey, 48. 'I was scared out of my wits. I phoned Paul to tell him and he just broke down on the phone.'
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When my middle son was about 1 and a half, he went through a phase where he would only eat bologna. Thats it, bologna. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. I tried everything. I took him to the doctor, an old country type doc, he said, so feed him bologna. He will get sick of it and look for other things. Sure enough, about 2 weeks of bologna, (I offered him tons of stuff every meal, cut up on his plate so he had choices) he started eating everything else. He is now 18, and a strapping lad of 6 foot plus 220 lbs (he is a giant LOL) his arms are the size of most peoples legs! He is like a tree! Perfectly healthy. Kids are fickle, but they get over it. Unless a child is severely underweight, which would indicate serious health conditions, offer them lots of healthy choices, and let them go. Keep the candy, sugar, and refined crap out of their diets (the bologna was beef only and they only got it once in a while, we stuck more to things like cut up chicken breast and lean beef cut up, but bologna cut up is a best friend when ya have no left overs for lunch the next day LOL).
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im another mum who has had issues with toddler diarrhoea and as above I have definitly found fructose to be the culprit. I would advise any mother who is going through issues with toddler diarrhoea to just try out a fructose free diet and see what happens. At the moment my Son doesn't have any fruit or vegetables, fruit juices, squash, wholewheat products like brown breads, brown pastas, weetabix, shreddies (hes fine with white breads and pastas), jams and yoghurts.
He can tolerate, all dairy (except yoghurt), all meats, white breads, pastas, rice
There are many websites offering information of "fructose Malabsorption" and by following advice from these I have managed to get my LO to have regular solid poos. He still has very loose poos if any of the above manage to slip through my net. For example just the other day he had a cheese and onion pastry roll, the very next day he was so poorly again with it - the onion, he couldn't tolerate it.
By eliminating all this from his diet, so far I have found he can only tolerate strawberries and tomato puree, everything else goes straight through him. Ingredients to look out for in processed foods are "Glucose-Fructose syrup" which is the UK name for "high fructose corn syrup". This is extremely high fructose, and is found in ice-creams and youghurts so I advise reading labels carefully.
I also had an issue with boots baby paracetamol. It made him have diarrhoea for a week solid. It contained "maltitol" a sugar alchohol which is advised to be avoided along with all other sugar alcohols like sorbitol and xylitol.
Fructose Restricted Diet Basics
This website gives a basic idea of foods to avoid and which foods are ok, although I found that even some fruits on the ok list are not well tolerated by my LO.
Google "fructmal", "fructose malabsorption" or "Fructose toddler diarrhoea/diarrhea" and just research research research. This is what I did and it worked for me.
I did use google and found fructose intolerance is extremely rare, 1 in 10,000.
I think you’re transferring your own dislike for healthy eating.
Wonder why mom is so old, 48? Not saying it’s a bad thing, just unusual to have a toddler at my age. I’m a grandmother.
Ever heard of whoops?
It is our policy, if you make an accusation, better be prepared to back it up with citations.
Poster was correct to require citations.
Compared to no food in a malnourished person, most definitely. What is junk food, exactly? Food that contains just calories? What is the most important thing you need to survive other than water? Calories maybe? You can get calories from carbs, protein, or fat. But you have to get them somehow.A Snickers bar provides them.
The whole term junk food is junk science. Some foods may provide you with vitimins, minerals, and fiber that you need. But foods that only provide you with calories in the form of protein/carbs/fat also keep you alive, in addition to often making life worth living. You nutrition ninnys are sort of like global warmies in a way. And you will die just as soon as the junk food types you condemn, only without having enjoyed life as much as you could have.
There you go, a reasonable solution to a common problem. I suspect these parents didn't take the reasonable solution and instead had their child taken from them for malnutrition. They are dumb, a simple solution such as yours would have prevented all this.
It's for the chilren
Oh hell yes, sons are 30 and 28, daughter is 17. But what a wonderful and blessed surprise she was!
Good job!! You are now an official FReeper!
Make your argument, don’t stand down.
Me, a health ninny??? I just finished a pizza! Don’t lump me in with those jerks; I have no desire to control what YOU eat. I have better ways to spend my time than to monitor your calorie count or snatch a hoagie out of the hands of some fattie.
I was being SARCASTIC regarding the child-snatching nutcases in the article. Parents can’t win for losing; they feed a kid too much “junk food,” the kids get snatched; they feed a kid “too much” healthy food, the kids get snatched. It doesn’t sound like the kids were being starved or put on some grueling vegan diet, although time will ultimately tell on that one. I’m sure you don’t approve of them being snatched; I don’t either!
I’m with Eric; anybody who tried to snatch a Big Mac out of the hands of some starving third-worlder would probably wind up dead.
At about what age can children start to handle fructose. I don’t remember ever lacking for fruit in my diet.
*chuckle*
Oh hell yes, sons are 30 and 28, daughter is 17. But what a wonderful and blessed surprise she was!
LOL
Ha ha. I know exactly where this is. I was over there a few years ago. Derbyshire is a beautiful place. I have some good friends in Chesterfield. I’ll have to ask them if they’ve heard of this story.
Please note that this 36-percent figure is referring to ADULTS, and plenty of articles state it to be at 45%; the percentage for children is MUCH higher, and as they grow older many of them become able to handle fructose.
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....It's common for celiacs to also struggle with fructmal. It's hard to know 'which came first' because fructose intolerance (FI) will reak all sorts of havoc.
There are quite a few people in my FI group that are dealing with dairy, gluten and frucotse intolerances...I'm telling you, I find it strange that one way or another many people dealing with seizures, migranes, developmental disabilities, mental illnesses, etc....all manage to find there way to vitually the same diets to find relief! Keto, GF/CF, SCD, FI.....I don't think this is a coincidence!!!!
Anyhoo...technically Coley has some hepatic activity present or he would have ended up in renal or kidney failure as an infant. So, based on that he should be able to tolerate some fructose. Green leafy veggies have very low levels of fructose. Celery, cucumbers, and mushrooms have none. Olives and avacado have less than the green veggies but he's unable to tolerate those...perhaps due to the oils, not sure.
He can tolerate 1 single broccoli spear like 1x per week...it's CRAZY! Fructose accumulates in his blood, so we need to be VERY careful about how much he gets at one sitting...and space that out correctly with his next.
But he does seem to do ok with spinach...I've been afraid to push it, so I generally use spinach as a spice sorta...I chop it up and add small amounts (like 1/2 cup or something) to soups and sauces, or mixed into rice or whatever.
I could try doing the same thing with escarole, jews mallow, collard greens, etc. too.....
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"...Another source of fructose is fruit juice. Many schools have made the misguided choice to remove soft drinks from their vending machines and replace them with fruit juice. The soft drinks have too much fructose in the form of high fructose corn syrup, but even 100% natural fruit juice has more fructose than full-sugar soft drinks! The American Academy of Pediatrics has been advising children to strictly limit juice intake for several years now....
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"Apple and pear juices are of particular interest to pediatricians because the high concentrations of free fructose in these juices can cause diarrhea in children. The cells (enterocytes) that line children's small intestines have less affinity for fructose absorption than for glucose and sucrose [12]. Unabsorbed fructose creates higher osmolarity in the small intestine, which draws water into the gastrointestinal tract, resulting in osmotic diarrhea. This phenomenon is discussed in greater detail in the Health Effects section.....",/i> Fructose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The over-hasty diagnosis of lactose intolerance in infants and toddlers has probably caused many cases of fructose intolerance to be overlooked. Fruit juice has become a significant part of young children's diets. Many factors may be responsible for this, including children's innate preference for sweetness, parents' perception of fruit juice as a "natural" and "healthy" food, and the convenience of a single-serving juice bottle or box. Marketing surveys have shown that infants consume, on average, 150ml of juice per day, and about 1% consume more than 600ml daily. It was also found that 50% of juice consumed is apple juice.8 Even at intakes of 15ml/kg (or 240ml in another study) at a time, which is generally seen as an acceptable serving size, apple juice has been associated with symptoms. Most packaged fruit juices contain between 125ml and 340ml and these would be the amounts a child would drink at one time. Fructose malabsorption can occur as frequently in normal, healthy children and adults as in those with functional bowel disease (such as irritable bowel disease).7 This type of fructose intolerance is not to be confused with hereditary fructose intolerance (dicussed below)..........
...One out of 3 healthy adults and 2 out of 3 children have been shown to incompletely absorb orally administered 0.7 - 2 g/kg of fructose.8 Apple juice was used in most of these studies.
In another study, fructose absorption was studied by the breath hydrogen test in 114 healthy children aged 0.1-6 years. These were given either 2 g/kg or 1 g/kg of fructose. All 57 children given 2 g/kg had peak breath hydrogen excretions > or = 20 ppm. At 1 g/kg, only 25/57 (44%) showed incomplete absorption. The percentage incompletely absorbing fructose and the peak breath hydrogen value were significantly higher in children aged 1-3 years. Interestingly, this age distribution correlates with that of toddlers' diarrhoea.,,,,
Is that enough?
Usually when the term “healthy eating” is used they are either vegetarian or worse vegan. If they kid was underweight and being forced to eat a vegan/vegeterian diet he was probably way under weight kids need a lot of protein for their brains and muscles to grow. Somehow I don’t think we are getting the whole story here?
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