Welcome to Diabetics with Eating Disorders

DWED (Diabetics with Eating Disorders) is a not for profit organisation working towards charitable status. Recent research shows that not only are female* type one diabetics at twice  the risk of developing anorexia or bulimia, as many as 40% of 15 – 30 year olds regularly omit insulin . This practice can have devastating consequences such as organ failure, infertility, blindness and in the worst cases, death. Despite the horrendous complications and staggering prevalence deliberate insulin manipulation/ omission (or diabulimia as the press have named it) is not diagnosable and there are no current guidelines for the NHS on how to deal with the issue.

*Although less common it can also be found in type 1 males.