Food Rumination Syndrome
Rumination syndrome is a condition in which people repeatedly and unintentionally spit up (regurgitate) undigested or partially digested food from the stomach, rechew it, and then either reswallow it or spit it out. Because the food hasn’t yet been digested, it reportedly tastes normal and isn’t acidic, as vomit is.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: PW190
Diagnosis: (Food) Rumination Syndrome
US Patients: 10% of institutionalized infant or child mental disabilities
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: B;G+
Age Onset: Age 11, boys; age 14, for girls.
Brain Area: This appears to be involuntary, not consciously caused by the person.
Symptoms: in children and those with cognitive disabilities, regular regurgitation of meals by involuntary contraction of abdominal muscles
Progression: Unlike normal vomit, the process is normal and unforced. Damage to the esophagus and alimentary canal, malnutrition, weight loss
Causes: Undecided.
Medications:
Therapies: For children or limited intelligence, a sour or bitter taste on the tongue is aversion training. Abdominal breathing helps others.
Youtube Video: Living With Rumination (Regurgitation) Disorder
Youtube Video:
Teen Unable to Digest His Food
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Support Group: nationaleatingdisorders.org; 800-930-2237
(National Eating Disorders Association)
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
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PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Gut-derived appetite regulating hormones across the anorexia nervosa spectrumby Maged Muhammed on December 31, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: Higher peak postprandial concentrations of anorexigenic PYY in AN (compared to HC) may facilitate dietary restriction and contribute to maintenance of lower weight. Lack of CCK suppression in AN is maladaptive in the context of undernutrition. Despite continued restriction, ghrelin is adaptively higher in AN overall and may not be differentiated by weight status.
- Difficulties in Emotion Regulation in Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorderby Casey M Stern on September 2, 2024
OBJECTIVE: Despite substantial research indicating difficulties with emotion regulation across eating disorder presentations, emotion regulation has yet to be studied in adults with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). We hypothesized that (1) those with ARFID would report greater overall emotion regulation difficulties than nonclinical participants, and (2) those with ARFID would not differ from those with other eating disorders on the level of emotion regulation difficulty.
- Medical Comorbidities, Nutritional Markers, and Cardiovascular Risk Markers in Youth With ARFIDby Helen Burton-Murray on June 28, 2024
OBJECTIVE: Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is common among populations with nutrition-related medical conditions. Less is known about the medical comorbidity/complication frequencies in youth with ARFID. We evaluated the medical comorbidities and metabolic/nutritional markers among female and male youth with full/subthreshold ARFID across the weight spectrum compared with healthy controls (HC).
- Trajectory of ghrelin and PYY around a test meal in males and females with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder versus healthy controlsby Kaitlin N Rozzell-Voss on June 19, 2024
Disruptions in appetite-regulating hormones may contribute to the development and/or maintenance of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). No study has previously assessed fasting levels of orexigenic ghrelin or anorexigenic peptide YY (PYY), nor their trajectory in response to food intake among youth with ARFID across the weight spectrum. We measured fasting and postprandial (30, 60, 120 minutes post-meal) levels of ghrelin and PYY among 127 males and females with full and...