Medical mystery: Iowa boy, 12, has no urge to eat, drink

by Guest Tue Oct 28, 2014 3:02 pm

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — The soundtrack of daily life in the Jones household is a persistent mantra that Michael and Debbie intone for their 12-year-old son, Landon.
Take a bite.
Take a drink.
Take a drink.
Take a bite.
These parents have been forced to jabber away like this in the last year because of their son's mysterious illness: He lacks all impulse to eat or drink. And he might be the only person in the world burdened with this bizarre medical condition.
Michael, 43, who prods most often, is a desperate father. He's become a verbal robot in a grim campaign to keep his boy fed.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/health/2014/10/27/medical-mystery-boy-no-eat-drink/17992065/

by Cass Tue Oct 28, 2014 4:20 pm

how very strange. I feel there must be some link to his earlier sickness. could it be psychosomatic somehow? it also seems like an extreme rare form of an eating disorder if medically they have proven he should still want to eat and can taste.

poor boy....68 lbs.......they need to find an answer asap.