Re: Litle girl won�t eat...

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Posted by BabyHerp on August 14, 2001 at 20:02:20:

In Reply to: Re: Litle girl won�t eat... posted by xta on August 13, 2001 at 20:54:47:

Color and yummy scents. Hand feed her until she starts eating on her own, if you can get a vitamin B-complex (even if its a whole tab) hide it in a piece of banana, papaya, wet whole wheat bread. I'd give her one 2x a week B-complex is a stress reducer and appetite stimulant. Water soluble, so excess is excreted.
Place her food dish right under her nose practically. Place her food bowl where she is. Color and yummy scents put em right on top!...papaya, dandelion flowers, rasberries, strawberries, tofu... of the high calcium dark leafy greens and legumes.(NO SPINACH!, BEET GREENS or CARROT TOPS!!) Pour Ensure/Sustacal/Generic SOY based liquid nutritional drink (strawberry & vanilla uuummm yummmy!!!) for protein & extra calories. If ya got to...go to the pet store and buy a "pill pusher" for cats. About $4. Use this to force feed the vitamin (B-complex or even a multi-vitamin with no more than 400 IU of Vitamin D) gently pull down on the dewlap, insert at the 'side' of her mouth, past the glottis, push the syringe and voila. Lots of natural sunlight if at all possible. Up the basking temps in her tank to 95 degrees. Are you guys going thru your winter now? Maybe she's too cold to metabolize much so may need to up that heat until she starts eating on her own. If she is losing noticeable weight you may need to force feed her a slurry...like SOY based nutritional drink and mashed banana,papaya.

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: Color and yummy scents. Hand feed her until she starts eating on her own, if you can get a vitamin B-complex (even if its a whole tab) hide it in a piece of banana, papaya, wet whole wheat bread. I'd give her one 2x a week B-complex is a stress reducer and appetite stimulant. Water soluble, so excess is excreted. : Place her food dish right under her nose practically. Place her food bowl where she is. Color and yummy scents put em right on top!...papaya, dandelion flowers, rasberries, strawberries, tofu... of the high calcium dark leafy greens and legumes.(NO SPINACH!, BEET GREENS or CARROT TOPS!!) Pour Ensure/Sustacal/Generic SOY based liquid nutritional drink (strawberry & vanilla uuummm yummmy!!!) for protein & extra calories. If ya got to...go to the pet store and buy a "pill pusher" for cats. About $4. Use this to force feed the vitamin (B-complex or even a multi-vitamin with no more than 400 IU of Vitamin D) gently pull down on the dewlap, insert at the 'side' of her mouth, past the glottis, push the syringe and voila. Lots of natural sunlight if at all possible. Up the basking temps in her tank to 95 degrees. Are you guys going thru your winter now? Maybe she's too cold to metabolize much so may need to up that heat until she starts eating on her own. If she is losing noticeable weight you may need to force feed her a slurry...like SOY based nutritional drink and mashed banana,papaya.

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