Diet-related Conditions
Dietary Treatment Tools
Diet-related Conditions
Dietary Treatment Tools
Food refusal is a normal developmental phase during the toddler years when young children become very selective about the food they are willing to eat. Young children who enter this phase, often beginning around 12-18 months, with a narrow range of accepted foods and textures, often find it more challenging to accept new and unfamiliar foods. Foods that have been happily accepted before, may also be refused and disliked. Toddlers may show preference for easier, soft textures and sweeter, bland tastes. These behaviours are often more about this particular development stage, with a new-found sense of themselves, and the ability to say “no! I don’t like that”. Managing these behaviours over the toddler years, and supporting the development of their relationship with food, feeding & nutrition is a task that responds to a consistent framework, one which I call structure, nurture and boundaries. On the other hand, those infants with early feeding histories affected by illness, allergies or aversion, may need more attention to support the nutrition needed to promote growth and wellness. Carine works across this spectrum of feeding difficulties in the early and school years, in providing nutritional assessment, therapeutic diets, diet-related change guidance and online workshops.
ARFID stands for Avoidant, Restrictive, Food Intake Disorder, and is now recognised as a highly selective eating disorder in children, and which often presents with food-related fears and sensory processing difficulties. It is now understood to more commonly affect those children within a neurodiverse spectrum of behaviours. Children with ARFID are hypersensitive to sensory information such as touch, look, taste and smell of food, and can be anxious, or find themselves unable to eat or try certain foods. Often eating of a very narrow range of foods; the most important need for those children is sufficient energy, with additional concern for parents about nutrient deficiencies and growth faltering. I work with a nutritional and behavioural lens for those children, to extend what is more easeful and accessible, before moving to what’s more challenging and difficult. Always attending, in the first instance, to any nutrient deficiency highlighted in the initial nutritional assessment, through nutrient supplementation and food fortification.
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Carine offers accessible online workshops on a variety of topics, designed to provide a space alongside others to listen, learn, share, practice and develop tools and strategies for nutritional health.
08/03/2023
Making Mealtimes Better : Structure, Nurture & Boundaries Accessible and full of sensible evidence-based information to support feeding young children well. Making Mealtimes Better is an on-line workshop series of...
05/07/2021
Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) is the most common nutritional problem affecting infants with 60% of 6-12 month old babies in the UK having low dietary iron intake, a key risk...
09/01/2020
I really do get it - it's hard to make time on a school morning to prepare a nutritious breakfast. My teenage daughter Izzy and I teamed up to produce...
26/11/2019
Many people are confused about the difference between lactose intolerance and cow's milk allergy. Misunderstood as same condition; the terms lactose intolerance and cow's milk allergy are used interchangeably and...
30/10/2019
Following a 2 - 6 week low lactose diet to treat lactose intolerance, your child should now be well on their way to recovery from symptoms. Reintroducing lactose back into...
02/10/2019
Infants and children need good sources of calcium in their diets on a daily basis. Calcium absorption in the gut is variable and ranges from 25-50%, increasing when intake is...
