Like anorexia and bulimia, diabulimia is a disorder caused by insistence on thinning, but health and life are exposed.
Although there are no specific figures for the number of cases in the municipalities of the State of Sonora and Mexico, the practice has been increasing and should stop, said the delegation coordinator of Nutrition at the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) in theState.
"It occurs in adolescents and those who suffer or are born with an insulin dependence, to what we know as type 1 diabetes," Fredy Nava Raygoza.
Type 1 diabetics are those that should be administered insulin to maintain their quality of life, he said, but due to weight gain and bad habits decrease their dose in search of losing a few more kilos.
This disorder is not detected in many occasions in hospitals or by parents, since it is confused with decompensations, the specialist warned.
The care that must be maintained by having a diabetes of any kind entails efforts, and among them it must highlight the food and medication, he stressed, to avoid side effects and greater consequences.
“The cost of this practice is very large (diabulimia), not applying insulin brings repercussions on the decompensation of blood glucose, what they do is increase glucose levels and this generates more urine, and this canBringing to dehydration as the first impact, ”he warned.
A cerebral edema is another of the consequences that young people who practice diabulimia can reach, he stressed, as well as to kidney problems, sight, diabetic retinopathies, peripheral neuritis and the most serious thing is that they can fall to hemodialysis andIn death.
Health is exposed
The accelerated weight loss through this method is excessively fast, he said, but to reach the consequences as well.
The maintenance of the appropriate weight according to age and height is not difficult with the methods of the correct food and exercise, although it seems, the delegation coordinator of Nutrition in the IMSS highlighted.
Both doctors and the family nucleus of adolescents with diabetes 1, mainly of women, must be alert to the clear signs of the cataloged as a disease.
the signals
“A clear example is fasting glucose but it is easy to manipulate, the most ideal is glucosylated hemoglobin, it must walk in a percentage 5.7, another parameter is the constant hospitalization, menstrual periods can be altered, a lot of14 at 18, ”described the specialist.
The psychological behaviors must be observed and treat immediately as part of the recovery, he added, since the requirement of stylized bodies and figures can be one of the factors that generate the disorder.
"In other states it is more frequent," he emphasized, "it is very related to anorexia and bulimia, the easiest alert is to see that very fast weight is being lost, that a person with type 1 diabetes has lost up to 7, 8 kilosIn a week, this severe loss does not speak of anything other than a metabolic decompensation. ”