TY - JOUR T1 - Children with pervasive refusal. JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 866 LP - 869 DO - 10.1136/adc.66.7.866 VL - 66 IS - 7 AU - B Lask AU - C Britten AU - L Kroll AU - J Magagna AU - M Tranter Y1 - 1991/07/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/66/7/866.abstract N2 - Four children are described with a potentially life threatening condition manifested by profound and pervasive refusal to eat, drink, walk, talk, or care for themselves in any way over a period of several months. The multiplicity and severity of the symptoms in these children do not fit comfortably into any existing diagnostic category. Long term and highly skilled nursing and psychiatric care is required to help these children to recover. The possible causes of this syndrome are discussed. ER -