Parent Guides
Practical, evidence-based resources from Dr Bujtor — for individuals, families and the professionals supporting them.
Understanding ARFID
What ARFID is, the ways it presents, how it differs from ordinary food selectivity, and when to seek advice.
A parent’s guide to an ARFID diagnosis
What the diagnosis means, what it does not mean, and the questions worth asking next.
Supporting a child with ARFID at school
What makes eating at school hard, the adjustments that help, reasonable adjustments in law, and what to put in writing.
Introducing a vitamin or supplement
Choosing a form that works, giving it without pressure, combining safely, and when to seek advice.
PFD and ARFID: the overlap and the differences
Two distinct diagnoses that share some similarities. What each condition describes, where they overlap, and where they differ.
Nutrition on a very limited range of foods
Which nutrients need watching, how intake is assessed, and how familiar and fortified foods can protect nutrition now.
Feeding, autism and ADHD
Why eating and neurodivergence overlap, when difference is not disorder, and what neuroaffirming support actually looks like.
When narrowing is ordinary
How to tell developmental fussiness from a feeding difficulty, and what helps in each case.
In preparationSensory-based feeding difficulties
Why smell, texture and appearance can make eating genuinely hard, and how to widen the range.
In preparationLiving with a food allergy diagnosis
Label reading, eating out, school and nursery, and keeping the diet nutritionally complete.
In preparationConstipation, reflux and tummy pain
What is common, what is worth investigating, and where diet genuinely helps.
In preparationThose marked in preparation are being drafted.
A guide is a starting point,
not a substitute for assessment
or treatment.
If something about your child’s eating, growth or feeding is worrying you, a conversation will get you further than a leaflet.
Get in touch →Introducing solids
A sequence rather than a timetable — textures, iron, allergens and what progress looks like.
In preparationFamily meals without the negotiation
Practical structure for calmer mealtimes, and why pressure works against you.
In preparationUnderstanding growth charts
Centiles, crossing lines, and when a change in pattern is worth raising.
In preparationThe nutrients that matter most
Iron, vitamin D, calcium and fibre — where they come from and how much is enough.
In preparationPacked lunches and school food
Building a lunch that gets eaten, and what to do when most of it comes home.
In preparationFeeding a teenager
Energy needs, sport, skipped meals and the shift from your plate to theirs.
In preparation