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What Causes Excessive Intake Of Sweet Drinks By A Person Instead Of Eating Food?
I have read that there can be something like a water intake imbalance. The person requires excessive amounts of liquid. The person whom I suspect has such a problem drinks excessive amounts of sweet drinks very often in place of eating food, insisting that she is not hungry at all but needs to drink. At a potluck of very healthy delicious food, she ate very little which included something like lasagna and cake, but drank a 16 oz. bottle of sugared drink, then finished with four 8oz. cups of Pepsi or Coke. That is 48 oz. of sugared liquid just at one mealtime, while everyone else is enjoying food. She often refuses food, then proceeds to drink. Is this a symptom of some known kind of health problem? I will appreciate your answer.
Physical Therapist or Physiotherapist, Niraj Modi's Response
Excessive amount of sugar drink you feel to eat when you are diabetic. I suggest to check her fasting as well 40 minute after food sugar level and if it stays more then the referance range then she need the diabitic treatment. You can also check with hba1c level in blood report only because it gives average maintainance of sugar level data of last 3-6 month. So more accurate to diagnose borderline diabetic or diabetic. Apart from this here since you have not given any other major symptoms, I am unable to support but I suggest to visit a doctor and check if she has any other issues like related to thyroid also and get all possible things evaluated and then take treatment as per that. Take care.
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What Causes Excessive Intake Of Sweet Drinks By A Person Instead Of Eating Food?
Excessive amount of sugar drink you feel to eat when you are diabetic. I suggest to check her fasting as well 40 minute after food sugar level and if it stays more then the referance range then she need the diabitic treatment. You can also check with hba1c level in blood report only because it gives average maintainance of sugar level data of last 3-6 month. So more accurate to diagnose borderline diabetic or diabetic. Apart from this here since you have not given any other major symptoms, I am unable to support but I suggest to visit a doctor and check if she has any other issues like related to thyroid also and get all possible things evaluated and then take treatment as per that. Take care.