Taste

I remember a friend of my mother’s who had to have a brain tumor removed. They saved her life but from then on she had no sense of taste. Her husband loved to kid her about it to try to cheer her up. I guess of all the senses, to loose it would be the least live changing of the all the senses, but still when it works in reverse, is hypersensitive, or doesn’t work at all, life is affected.

Just as with the other senses, the sense of taste can be hypo or hyper or altered in some manner. Some children’s diet is a daily battle for some parents. After working with dietitians we found a system that works for our Trent. Instead of trying to balance everything out in a given day, we work on a weekly plan and it fits us. Trent has to taste a massive amount of one food to be able to taste it. One apple doesn’t meet his taste threshold. So, he’ll eat half a dozen before he can taste apple. He doesn’t have a “full” or “satiated” button. So, one day he’ll get his corn, another bread, another protein. He’s done better in the recent years, but I do make every thing from scratch and control the additives and preservatives as much as possible. This diet doesn’t all have to do with taste directly, but it does influence how we, as parents, can apply all the good nutrition rules we know. There have only been a few supplements we have been able to get in Trent. He is so sensitive to this that he literally ate a path through his applesauce avoiding the swirl of liquid vitamins I had stirred in.

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