Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9370072 | Archives de Pédiatrie | 2005 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We underline the clinical importance of a specific eating disorder in 3 to 10Â years old children, when the majority of the works about the prepubertal eating disorders focus either on the period just preceding adolescence (often between 10 and 13Â years), or on the second half of the first year of the baby. Within the eating disorders described in the literature, we compare the clinical presentation of most of these 3 to 10Â years old children with the food avoidance emotional disorder described during adolescence. These problems of eating behaviour (various selective eating with or without provoked vomiting) are ignored for a long time in these young children because of quite a satisfactory growth, but these children are often seen in emergency rooms because of a brutally complete eating refusal. Therapeutic consultations allow these children to express their fears about diseases, poisoning and death, for themselves or for their close relations, in particular the mother, without endangering their body. The early recognition and care of these difficulties of conciliation between the body and the thoughts impose a narrow collaboration between paediatric and psychiatric staffs.
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Authors
J.-L. Goëb, B. Azcona, F. Troussier, J. Malka, J.-L. Giniès, P. Duverger,