Çolak Sivri Rukiye, Hizarcioğlu Gülşen Hayriye, Yilmaz Arzu
Departments of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and.
Clin Neuropharmacol. 2018 Jul/Aug;41(4):148-150. doi: 10.1097/WNF.0000000000000288.
Phagophobia is a condition characterized by an avoidance of swallowing foods and an intense fear of choking while eating solid foods in the absence of physiological and anatomical abnormalities. Phagophobia is mentioned in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition and International Classification of Diseases, 11th Edition in the new diagnostic category of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder. The literature concerning phagophobia is sparse, and there is no specific treatment modality for this life-threatening condition. We describe a case of phagophobia in a 15-year-old girl who was treated successfully with low-dose aripiprazole as an augmentation therapy after she witnessed her father choking while eating chicken. To our knowledge, this is the first report showing that phagophobia was successfully treated with aripiprazole.
恐食症是一种在没有生理和解剖学异常的情况下，表现为回避吞咽食物以及在进食固体食物时极度害怕窒息的病症。《精神疾病诊断与统计手册（第五版）》和《国际疾病分类（第十一版）》在回避/限制性食物摄入障碍这一新的诊断类别中提到了恐食症。关于恐食症的文献稀少，对于这种危及生命的病症也没有特定的治疗方式。我们描述了一名15岁女孩的恐食症病例，她在目睹父亲吃鸡肉时窒息后，接受了低剂量阿立哌唑作为增效疗法，并成功治愈。据我们所知，这是首例显示阿立哌唑成功治疗恐食症的报告。
