April 25, 2009

The vulnerability of children with type 1 diabetes eating disorders

Recently, Australia Flinders Medical Center, the two experts issued an official with type 1 diabetes on young people with eating disorders the relationship between the latest research. The results showed that people with type 1 diabetes of young people the same age, almost all young people most likely to suffer from various types of eating disorders among cases.

It is reported that two experts spent three months of treatment in 36 Flinders Medical Center, suffering from type 1 diabetes of the young people continue to study, in which the oldest was 19 years old and the youngest is 11 years old. In the follow-up study, about four of the study into a more serious overeating phenomenon, more than two young people into the half of the phenomenon of over-training, in addition to about a half percent of young people with type 1 diabetes patients are shown in order to reduce the weight of the body arising from the adverse health hazards of dietary behaviors. In other words, to participate in the study of young patients with type 1 diabetes, only less than one fifth showed no harmful symptoms of eating disorders.

For this discovery, the process involved in the study of medical experts, Dr. David Rupert said: "Most young people with diabetes is generally the shape of their intention to have more anxiety and worry about weight, so in order to to control it through the sudden change in eating habits to adjust, which is why a considerable number may be suffering from type 1 diabetes while young people have emerged the phenomenon of eating disorders, bulimia and anorexia but again the two most serious symptoms reasons. In fact, once the serious eating disorders of young people to a certain extent, it will cause more harm to the physical and mental health. For example, eating disorders affect the body's own blood sugar control, and if there are problems with blood sugar control, there may even be eye caused by diabetes and kidney disease and other diseases. "