The child may go into protective custody because of his weight. A reader suggests Prader-Willi Syndrome. (via a reader tip)
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“The 8-year-old can eat three bags of chips and four bags of cookies a day.”
He may indeed have a medical condition, but jeez, look at what the kids eats.
Look at what his parents GIVE him to eat….
Not hard to see who’s running things in that family….
I’ll bet a gastric bypass (not that anyone would do one on a child so young) would “cure” his eating disorder….which would prove that his problem wasn’t medical, it’s oral (i.e., he puts everything he sees in his mouth….)
How horrible that his parents let it go so far…
My record in the ER was a 292 pound 9 year old and a 350 lb 12 year old who could not climb up onto the exam gurney. They will suck on society for the rest of their reletively short lives in the way of SSI disability, and food stamps (ironically)
maybe the kid is on Zyprexa
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