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[quote=Anonymous]We are in a similar boat with our son in terms of difficulty eating and consuming enough calories. He is on the charts now, but we use tv/videos to get him to eat. He would eat some things otherwise, but only crackers really. We rely heavily on pediasure. We almost did the feeding clinic at Hopkins but decided against it and we just try to gradually make progress instead. It's hard and stressful. We have not yet tried periactin but have discussed it a lot. I too hate giving him more meds, especially one with potential behavioral side effects. The last GI we saw basically said that while periactin can  make kids hungrier, it rarely ever results in the kind of weight gain parents are hoping to see. From what I read online, it seems to help some and not others. As our son gets older (he will be 3 next month), it gets both easier in some ways and harder in others. He understands more, but he is also more stubborn and less willing to deviate from the food rut routine.[/quote]

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