Covid, +30% anorexia and bulimia: Consult@noi requests meeting with Speranza
Anorexia e bulimia they mainly affect young people. The numbers are worsening in the first months of 2021. In Italy there are few ad hoc structures for a pathology that is still too underestimated.
The covid emergency, with the increase in social isolation and the impoverishment of relational life, has caused a worsening of eating and nutrition disorders (anorexia, bulimia, etc.) which particularly affect adolescents, with a dramatic increase in 2020 of as much as 30% of cases.
The alarm was raised by the Consult@noi association, which brings together family associations that deal with serious pathologies connected to nutritional and eating disorders, which requested, in a letter, an urgent meeting with the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, underlining that this pathology must be fully recognized as a specific disease that requires multidisciplinary therapies and suitable treatment paths.
"We launch - writes the Association in the letter to the Minister - a cry of alarm: thousands of adolescents and young people are getting sick and deaths are sharply increasing. These statistics, although so serious and, at the beginning of 2021, further worsening, are not enough to describe the serious suffering that affects thousands of pre-adolescents, adolescents and young people, leading them, in many cases, to the end, plunging their families into desperation".
The Association recalls that this serious pathology continues to be underestimated, while. they represent a health emergency in industrialized countries: in Italy it has involved approximately 3 million young people, mostly adolescent girls, and caused, according to the latest official statistics available, as many as 3500 deaths in 2018, numbers these of a dramatic pathology.
Consult@noi reports the serious lack of ad hoc structures in many Regions and emphasizes how it is necessary, in particular, to increase multidisciplinary clinics able to recognize and address the pathology from its onset and to support them with rehabilitation residences (few and absent in many Regions). Furthermore, for the Association it would also be necessary to establish hospital beds in each province for seriously and chronically ill patients and to train personnel to ensure that they are able to make early diagnoses.
Thank you for your attention Federica Cingolani (letter attached)
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