Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder

ICD-10 Code F50.82

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder

Definition

An eating disorder characterized by avoidance or restriction of food intake due to one or more of the following: lack of interest in eating or food, sensitivity to sensory characteristics of food (such as taste, texture, smell, or appearance), or concern about aversive consequences of eating (such as choking or vomiting), resulting in persistent failure to meet appropriate nutritional and/or energy needs as manifested by significant weight loss, nutritional deficiency, dependence on enteral feeding or nutritional supplements, or marked interference with psychosocial functioning, and where the eating disturbance is not better explained by lack of available food, cultural or religious practices, another mental disorder, or a concurrent medical condition.

Also known as ARFID, selective eating disorder — per MONDO

Also identified as