[1] Feeding disorder has been divided into six further sub-types:[2] Children attempting to swallow different food textures often vomit, gag, or choke while eating.
[3] Other symptoms include head turns, crying, difficulty in chewing or vomiting and spitting whilst eating.
[3] A few of the medical and psychological conditions that have been known to be associated with this disorder include:[5] A child that is suffering from malnutrition can have permanently stunted mental and physical development.
[6] They can also develop further eating disorders later in life such as anorexia nervosa, or they could become a limited eater—though they could still be a healthy child they may become a picky eater.
This allows the consulting medical practitioners to trace the swallow-function on an X-ray or other investigative system such as a CAT scan.