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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 718996" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Prader-Willi syndrome can be easily tested for. Most children with Prader-Willi are born with very low muscle tone and most are unable to feed easily, hence fail to thrive in early life. The eating obsessivly kicks in when the chidlren are young toddlers. Prader-Willi children nearly always have light skin and hair, blue eyes, and smaller than normal genitalia. PWS child also display varying autism signs, raging (especially over food). They have to watched very carefully as they will eat anything in sight, including garbage and non-food items. Basically PWS turns off the satiety signals sent by the stomach to the brain. PWS children literally are ALWAYS "starving" because their system never tells them it's had enough food. </p><p></p><p>Adult PWS patients usually have to live in group homes where their diets can be extremely carefully monitored, and food can be secured. Otherwise, PWS patients can and will eat themselves death. </p><p>Also, PWS patient often lack the enervation required to vomit, which makes the obsessive eating even more dangerous. In fact, I went to school with a little girl who had PWS. She died at 10 years of age from a ruptured stomach and small intestine after being sent to relatives for the summer. Unfortunately, the relatives couldn't bear the crying, screaming, and outright raging over food, and let her have what she wanted. Scared the heck out of me as I was 10 and going through a hellacious growth spurt and downing ridiculous amounts of food at a sitting (and in between meals). Here I was, after hearing that school friends "stomach had burst because she ate too much" put me off of eating for a bit for fear the same would happen to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 718996, member: 1963"] Prader-Willi syndrome can be easily tested for. Most children with Prader-Willi are born with very low muscle tone and most are unable to feed easily, hence fail to thrive in early life. The eating obsessivly kicks in when the chidlren are young toddlers. Prader-Willi children nearly always have light skin and hair, blue eyes, and smaller than normal genitalia. PWS child also display varying autism signs, raging (especially over food). They have to watched very carefully as they will eat anything in sight, including garbage and non-food items. Basically PWS turns off the satiety signals sent by the stomach to the brain. PWS children literally are ALWAYS "starving" because their system never tells them it's had enough food. Adult PWS patients usually have to live in group homes where their diets can be extremely carefully monitored, and food can be secured. Otherwise, PWS patients can and will eat themselves death. Also, PWS patient often lack the enervation required to vomit, which makes the obsessive eating even more dangerous. In fact, I went to school with a little girl who had PWS. She died at 10 years of age from a ruptured stomach and small intestine after being sent to relatives for the summer. Unfortunately, the relatives couldn't bear the crying, screaming, and outright raging over food, and let her have what she wanted. Scared the heck out of me as I was 10 and going through a hellacious growth spurt and downing ridiculous amounts of food at a sitting (and in between meals). Here I was, after hearing that school friends "stomach had burst because she ate too much" put me off of eating for a bit for fear the same would happen to me. [/QUOTE]
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