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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need a doctor ASAP, especially since these are sudden changes at a relatively late stage in childhood. This doesn't sound fully behavioral to me - although I have heard it is normal for early teenagers to suddenly start cutting foods out (just like when they are 18 months to 3 and go through the stage of rejecting foods they ate when they were babies). Still, this sounds different. I think your first stop needs to be a physician. Trust your instincts.[/quote]

Please heed this, OP. Yes, this could end up being about hormones, emotions, a need for control, or pressures at school of which you're not aware. But first and foremost, get her body checked out.

The juice-guzzling and fixation on "fast carbs" that turn to sugars in the body quickly (which white pasta and white pizza dough etc. do) means she is after [i]sugars[/i]--think of carbs as the sugars they become.

I really would get her tested for diabetes first, because believe me, it can make a person VERY angry and cause them to lash out at others in what seems like a personality change. We have Type 1 diabetes in our family and I've seen the relatives with it go from lovely people to furious and even physical when their sugar is out of whack. Contact her pediatrician ASAP and find out if you need to do a fasting test or whatever, so your DD is ready when you walk in the doctor's door.

If you think, or are told by friends, that if you have no diabetes in the family she probably "can't" have diabetes, that's absolutely wrong. It can emerge with no family connection. A friend's DD was 11 when she found out that she had Type 1 and there were not even the kinds of problems you cite here. And zero family members on either side with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes.

Tell the doctor in advance of the visit what is going on and find out what tests the doctor will do, and not just for diabetes but for anything else that might be in play here. Don't spend the visit with your child sitting there being talked about in front of herself by you and the doctor--priming the doctor in advance can help avoid that. This might not be diabetes but you do need to rule it out and get whatever other tests are appropriate.

By the way, you asked earlier if you should just let her drink all the juice she wants if it's a phase but please don't. What you do not have in the house, she cannot drink, so don't bring in more than a small amount at any one time (even if other family members love it-- you need to limit her right now). Juice is fine but lacks fiber, pectin and many other things that the whole fruit provides, and there is a huge tendency to let kids have all the juices they want since it's thought of as merely fruit. It develops a sweet tooth for sweet drinks and that will grow beyond "healthy" fruit juices quickly especially if she keeps craving sugars. [/quote]

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