Hello everyone! If you are feeding your kids pediasure I think you should read this post. I will start off with, Im not judging you for your choices but I think you deserve to know what side effects pediasure has on your kids. I was not informed of this from any medical professionals I deal with and I think we all have a right to make informed decisions about what we are feeding our kids. I will start at the beginning. And I apologize in advance this will be a long post. Lol. My daughter Trinity was dx ONH (little to no vision) at about 4 months old, dx with panhypopituitarism at about 6 months old and then dx with autism and developmental disability (mental retardation) at 3 years old. Of all the struggles weve been through getting her to eat has been the hardest one. She has tactile sensitivity and because of this she refused to eat anything solid. She would only eat food with the consistency of yogurt. And it would take over an hour to feed her a minigo. So when she turned 1 we were told to give her pediasure because formula was not providing enough calories as she needed. At this point in time Trinity was developmentally delayed but on the scale of a typical blind child she was meeting her milestones. Other than failure to thrive which resulted in poor muscle tone. So we started with the pediasure. Everything seemed to be going fine. She was gaining weight and seemed relatively happy. We would still struggle to get food into her and I thought it was just because of the texture of her food and acid reflux. Eventually she was gagging and sometimes vomiting even when we gave her yogurt. So we cut out the food altogether and put her on a pediasure only diet. This happened when she was about 2 years old. The doctors and therapists wanted us to put in a feeding tube, but we refused. Why do a surgery if shes taking the pediasure? At this point Trinity was not communicating but she could sing songs and repeat words being said to her. Within that year she stopped singing songs and repeating words and all we had was baby babbling. Thats when we started thinking autism. She also started hand flapping, emotional outbursts and issues with constipation. It took a year to get her dx for autism. Crazy right? Welcome to the Canadian medical system. Now we have the dx and we can start doing the therapy she desperately needed. We moved for better therapy and medical services for Trinity. I will now fast forward a few years. Weve been doing reference and regulate therapy since she was 3.5 years old and it seems to be helping. Trinity has always had low energy and would only engage for about 20 minutes at a time. We started feeding therapy, again, about 8 months ago and its been a slow go until about 2 weeks ago. I googled side effects of pediasure dont ask me why I really dont know. I was appalled and horrified. Inflammation of the brain Delayed speech Constipation Autistic like behaviour I couldnt believe all these years of trying to figure out whats going on with Trinity and these side effects are like telling her life story. Needless to say Ive stopped feeding her pediasure and replaced it with homemade smoothies. Weve noticed a big difference in her. Shes eating more real food. She seems happier. She has no constipation issues, which we were using restoralax to help her go. Shes no longer taking the restoralax either. Shes engaging more in play. And shes repeating words again. Also, we were having issues with the stimming and hitting herself and she has minimized that as well. And the dark circles under her eyes has almost disappeared. This is my story and opinion, take it as you will.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:58:24 +0000
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