Table 1 Diagnostic Criteria for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

● A problem with eating or feeding (e.g. seeming disinterest in food or eating; repulsion to certain foods based on their sensory qualities; fears about aversive effects of eating) leading to recurrent inability to take in adequate nutrition and/or energy coupled with one (or more) of the following:

● The eating problems are not due to body image disturbance, and anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa cannot be diagnosed instead.

 ○ Major nutritional deficiency.

● Feeding or eating problems are not the result of scarcity of food or a culturally endorsed tradition.

 ○ Substantial weight loss (or lack of weight gain).

● The disordered eating is not due to a concomitant medical problem or another psychiatric disorder, so that if the medical or psychiatric disorder is treated, the eating problems resolves.

 ○ Reliance on nasogastric or gastric tube feeding or oral nutrition supplements.

 ○ Impaired psychosocial function.