"My granddaughter's care for diabulimia"

She is a type 1 diabetic with an eating disorder which you can only have if you have diabetes. It is not anorexia, it is not bulimia yet in this eating disorder unit (Royal Bethlem Hospital), that is how she is treated. I find the lack of knowledge and understanding about diabulimia quite shocking. It results in a diabulimic being treated for anorexia. The lack of exercise, the lack of fluids, the appalling food, and lack of food, is shocking. Treatment is archaic, traumatising and inadequate.

Diabetics need fluids to stay well yet they are treated as though they anorexic and fluids not free for use. There is no such thing as 5 fruit and veg there, no such thing as exercise, even though this is what someone with diabulimia needs because they are NOT anorexic. They need to stay well and the treatment completely undermines this.