China’s beauty slimness obsession highlighted after woman’s weight drops to 25kg in a year with multiple organ failure and refuses treatment
- A woman has shocked doctors in China after dropping from 65kg to 25kg in just one year
- She reportedly refused recommended treatments, despite warnings she could die if she continued her present diet
The case of a 30-year-old woman with an eating disorder that saw her weight drop to just 25kg and taken to hospital with multiple organ failure has shocked doctors in China.
The unnamed woman, who is just 165 centimetres tall, from Hebei province in northern China, lost 40kg in the last year due to extreme dieting and weight loss caused by an eating disorder, Chinese news site Shanghai Video reported yesterday.
The woman decided to commence a highly restrictive diet when her weight reached 65kg after she had her second child.
Within a year she had lost 40kg and weighed just 25kg. Feeling unwell, the woman took herself to a local hospital.
In addition to suffering from multiple organ failure, the woman had severe malnutrition, heart failure, gastrointestinal disorder, hair loss and had ceased menstruating.