A BOY of eight who ate only chocolate, Nutella spread and Pringles has finally had a proper meal — thanks to hypnosis.
Rocco O’Brien would scream and be sick if mum Heidi, 45, tried to give him other foods.
In desperation she contacted David Kilmurry who specialises in obsessive eating conditions.
After a series of two-hour sessions, Rocco now has ten foods which he is willing to try.
Heidi, from Ipswich, said: “His fussiness started as soon as we started weaning him.
“He’s got autism and a sensory processing disorder and is afraid even to touch most food.”
“He was gagging on everything and was avoiding certain foods.
“I was one of these old school mums who weaned them at four months instead of six. I tried him later but he didn’t want any food.
“He wasn’t just refusing food, he was sick with it. We couldn’t go to restaurants, he couldn’t be in the same room as food. The smell, the look.
“I used to open his hand and put pasta in it and he’d just scream like I’d put spiders in his hand.
“He didn’t eat it or anything. He only just held a chicken nugget six months ago and he cried.”
David said: “It is a pleasure to see him eating pears as if he’s been doing it all his life.”