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[quote=Anonymous]I work in a school…many, many kids don’t eat lunch, even if they aren’t on meds. They talk too much or are having too much fun with friends. So, some of this problem is environmental and hard to solve.

That said…for my kid on stimulants, who stopped growing and fell off all of their growth curves, we just sent in whatever they were willing to eat. Cookies, milk, chips, favorite fruit. We didn’t care, as long as it wasn’t candy and it had calories and some fat. We were a little embarrassed about it, so we explained the issue to the teacher. We also asked the teacher to allow our kid to eat snacks if they asked to eat something.

Eventually for us, though, the only thing that worked was adding an appetite stimulant. And then when they gained weight but not height, it turned out that they had stopped growing because of a growth hormone problem, which we sort of missed because we thought it was just an eating/calories issue.

Never a dull moment when your kids have special needs!!!

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