MB29.0

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Avoidant or restrictive eating

Description

Acceptance of only a limited diet, which may be defined in terms of a specific dietary composition or sensory features of food, that is inconsistent with cultural or subcultural norms.

Index terms

  • Avoidant or restrictive eating

Excludes

  • 6B83 – Avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder

Exclusions from above levels

  • 19 – Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
  • JA66 – Clinical findings on antenatal screening of mother

Sibling codes

  • MB29.1 – Binge eating
  • MB29.2 – Eating of non-nutritive substances
  • MB29.3 – Purging behaviour
  • MB29.4 – Rumination-regurgitation
  • MB29.Y – Other specified symptoms and signs involving eating and related behaviour
  • MB29.Z – Symptoms and signs involving eating and related behaviour, unspecified

Foundation entity

Avoidant or restrictive eating – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1517485083

Part of: MB29: Symptoms or signs involving eating and related behaviour › 21: Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere classified