Eating disorders affecting children as young as six

AT LEAST two Irish children under the age of seven develop an eating disorder every month, according to one of the country’s main resource centres for those with anorexia and bulimia.

Suzanne Horgan, Psychotherapist and head of Eating Disorders Ireland, said her Wexford-based centre has dealt with about a dozen cases of children aged six and seven in the past six months.

“People are coming to me wondering what to do about their six or seven- year-old child who has an eating disorder.