WHAT IS ARFID? | WHAT ARFID IS NOT |
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● A problem with eating or feeding (e.g. seeming disinterest in food or eating; repulsion to certain foods based on their sensory qualities; fears about aversive effects of eating) leading to recurrent inability to take in adequate nutrition and/or energy coupled with one (or more) of the following: | ● The eating problems are not due to body image disturbance, and anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa cannot be diagnosed instead. |
○ Major nutritional deficiency. | ● Feeding or eating problems are not the result of scarcity of food or a culturally endorsed tradition. |
○ Substantial weight loss (or lack of weight gain). | ● The disordered eating is not due to a concomitant medical problem or another psychiatric disorder, so that if the medical or psychiatric disorder is treated, the eating problems resolves. |
○ Reliance on nasogastric or gastric tube feeding or oral nutrition supplements. | |
○ Impaired psychosocial function. |