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Family’s push for doctors to recognise ‘diabulimia’ as young woman tells of tragic toll

As young girls, Sienna Wiltshire and her big sister Tawny were inseparable.
Their infectious smiles and playful bond, captured in a childhood’s worth of photographs, promised a future of sisterly love to last a lifetime.
Key points:
- The link between diabetes and eating disorders is well documented in research and it can be very high risk
- Withholding insulin to control weight causes numerous physical and mental health conditions
- The term ‘diabulimia’ is not recognised as a medical or psychiatric diagnosis, leaving sufferers in a grey area
But pictures can’t tell how long lifetimes will be and they can’t see the fragility of faulty DNA lurking within one child, but not their sibling.
By the time Sienna was eight, she had been diagnosed with…
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