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@Brandybrookes ; when i had it i didnt want to eat for almost a month ; does she have favorite foods? try Chicken and stars/ noodles soup ; even if she cant taste it it will feel soothing drinking it, also beef and barley soups ( you can smash down the barley to make sure it is swollable with out chewing ). Those go ghurt things might have a ton of sugar in them but will also give her a calcuim boost, same with the Pedisure drinks. Even ice cream might work ; once her appetite gives in she ll make up for lost time !

Also, you can trying making homemade ice cream with bananas and mabe something like carrots to get some vitamins into her? If you boil carrots until soft and then blend and strain them into the bananas and freeze, the cold and soft feeling might be soothing, plus I've never met a kid who didn't take ice cream as a treat. You could also blend berries, carrots, spinach etc into juice and freeze into ice pops with lots of nutrients.

I haven't gotten covid (thankfully) so I'm not sure how the loss of taste would affect my interest in stuff like this. But if she's normally picky but likes "snack" foods, now if the time to get those sneaky veggies in while she can't taste them! Lol.

Ultimately, though, I remember my fjildren's doctors telling me at one point that when your kid is sick and refusing to eat, it's much more important for them to eat something, regardless of how healthy it is... you shouldn't be worrying as much about nutrients if it's going to cause a struggle. If that means ice cream and Mac & cheese for two days or whatever, at least they're eating.

Also the drinks like protein breakfast drinks might work out since it'll probably just feel like drinking milk?

Good luck to you and remember to take good care of yourself as well. Your kiddos need a healthy mama so even though instinct says to only worry about them, make sure you keep yourself going too.

Popcycles come in handy at a time like this and jello is good too. Watermelon is another thing we use with our kids when they are not wanting to eat. Smoothies are another thing we use to coax the kids to eat when they aren't wanting to eat. I hope you are all feeling better soon