Personally I would go to a dietician or paediatrician for help.
When Matilda had iron issues she had the dark circles under her eyes. She wasn't lethargic, but pretty darn cranky (really, when isn't she?) I used multivitamens and In-Liven. I would put it in chocolate rice milk because it was the only way I could get it in. I gave both multi and in-Liven for 3 months and saw a huge improvement.
Tough one, my DD isn't big on meat, but sounds like she is better than your poor boy at the moment.
I've been really Iron deficient and it makes you feel like crap, if you pull his lower eye lid down and it's white and not pink then he is probably deficient. ( I think that's how it works, my brain has gone out the window lately)
I was gonna suggest maccas cheeseburger for a while that was all the meat DD was eating.
Not sure what else to suggest, I actually got DD to eat Pate for a while, I know who would have thought, just on crackers, I called called it special paste. Maybe you could call it dog food or something, he might eat it if he gets on well with one of the dogs.
Def go the vitamins, there is a liquid iron suplement that you can get, a trip to the gp might be an idea and take it from there.
ETA maybe you could make smootie with the toddler formula, what ever his favourite flavour is.
Definitely get some help hun. make sure he is also getting enough vitamin C. get iron fortified cereals and breads and do what you can to get him to have some. Iron needs vit C to be absorbed properly so make sure he has them together. and plenty of DARK green veggies
Ali - i can't get him to eat vegies... I served him up nice vegies the other day, he just played with them then threw them over the floor...won't even eat vegemite sangas - just plain bread - so there goes his vitamin B...
Ange - yeah I don't think he is really happy
Laura - thank you, DH is going to check his eyes. Not sure how he would go with paste - he hated hommus.... I could try the smoothy though - would probably drink it with choc topping in it..
I mean he will eat certain things sporadically - like weetbix, toast, grapes, strawberries - and of course - biscuits, bread sticks, sultanas, cheese and yoghurt. But not very much of those things..
(OMG he is currently eating a very thin piece of watermelon - from lunch )
Mel.. honey, as you know, im going through a very similar thing with Jesse. Lately he has gotten a little bit better, but he is very fussy. I think at the beginnning the reason he would only eat bare minimal was because he just wasnt hungry (after going so long without eating with his gastro). You know when you havent eaten anything for a while, the tiniest thing fills you up. For Jesse, what i found worked was labels. Unfortunately. Things like Wiggles yogurt and Wiggles biscuits (theyre actually pretty good ingredients wise - all natural).. giving him a smoothy in a special Mickey Mouse cup.. etc. Fruit.. he wont eat.. will only have in a smoothy.. or one of those Splats pureed fruit things because of the novelty of the packaging.. (similar to the yogurt.. he'll only eat it if he can feed himself but thats fine by me as long as hes eating). When it comes to dinner.. he hardly eats anything. Likes mash potato again because he can do it himself and its "fun". Wont touch vegies. Meat.. will eat very rarely. He wont eat lollies or chocolate.. wont touch maccas. But just by giving him what he'll eat (labels) has increased his appetite from nothing, to now eating things like toast and sandwiches (but only when i cut them into bit size pieces or cut things in different shapes to hes use to).
Like you i am giving him the vitamins though.
Sucken eyes can mean dehidration.. is he drinking enough? Whats his skin like?
Toddler formula is fine when theyre not eating.. as the vitamins in it are more important than the sugar theyre getting iykwim.
I think it may just be a stage but I would definately just see a doctor for piece of mind. Worse they can say is just feed him what he will eat.
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