A 2-year-9-month-old boy presented with feeding disorder and poor growth. The clinical presentation
was compatible with infantile anorexia, one of behavioral feeding disorders. The author proposed that the
main cause of poor food acceptance and growth failure in this child was poor appetite. Treatments were
composed of behavioral interventions, rescheduling meals and foods enrichment. Alternative managements
by prescribing cyproheptadine as an appetite stimulant resulted in significant improvement of feeding behaviors
and weight gain.

Keywords: Anorexia, Child, Cyproheptadine, Eating disorders, Feeding behavior, Feeding and eating disorders
of childhood, Growth disorders