There are a number of companies that sell items specifically designed to serve as safe and/or therapeutic options for children to chew on in order to help them meet their sensory needs. In addition to removing unsafe items from the environment, it’s also helpful to add safe alternatives. Thankfully, this ended up being a non-toxic item, but the time I spent waiting for Poison Control to research this and call me back felt like an eternity and could have been avoided if I had inspected the package more closely. I only discovered it when I found him with a blue tongue and lips from the substance that was inside the thermometer, which he had bitten open. I learned this particular tip the hard way when my son got a hold of a stick-on thermometer from a temperature sensitive package before I even realized it was there. It’s also important to pay close attention when any new items come into the home, such as groceries or delivery boxes. things with sharp edges, magnets, batteries, etc.). Lock up any cleaners, soaps, or other chemicals to make sure they are not accessible and keep an eye out for items that could cause a choking hazard and/or just be inherently dangerous to chew (i.e. Create a safe environmentīecause chewing or eating of non-edible objects can lead to safety issues, the first step is to set up your child’s environment to eliminate potential dangers. So, that being said, here are some specific things you can do to help your child. Ultimately, both approaches may lead you to the same place, but, in my experience, the one you choose will make all the difference in how you and your child feel about the process. When we look at things from this perspective, our goal with interventions shifts from eliminating the behavior to meeting our child’s needs.
My son, who is nonspeaking and communicates through spelling, has explained that he knows he shouldn’t chew on certain things, but it’s basically like his body acts without his permission. Our kids are not chewing on things because they don’t know any better or because they want to be destructive, but are doing it because it fills a need. Before I get into specifics, however, I just want to stress the overall importance of looking at your child’s chewing behavior as a symptom of something else going on in his or her body, not as an intentional behavior that needs to be corrected through discipline. In this final post of the series, I will focus on interventions and tools that you can use to help decrease and/or redirect your child’s chewing in order to both meet your child’s needs and keep him or her safe. Pica symptoms are caused by swallowed toxic or poisonous substances, as well as bacteria found in nonfood things.In Part 1 and Part 2 on about chewing/mouthing behavior in autism, I shared about potential underlying causes. Pica involving dozens of additional substances has been documented, including cigarette butts and ashes, hair, paint chips, and paper. Eating earth, soil, or clay (geophagia) ice (pagophagia) and starch (starchophagia) are some of the most often documented varieties of pica (amylophagia). Pica in humans is divided into several divisions according to the substance consumed.
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