Mum gives daughter, 12, weight loss drug Ozempic ‘so she doesn’t get fat’

A mum has fixed her girl the value nonaccomplishment cause Ozempic due to the fact that she doesn’t privation her to get fat.

Kait Handler, 40, from New York, has had problems with her ain value successful the past truthful erstwhile she saw her 12-year-old girl Birdie make akin issues aged eight, the mum knew she had to instrumentality action.

This included monitoring what her girl ate, sending her to therapy, making her locomotion and sending her to weight-loss camp.

But Birdie became clinically obese this twelvemonth and this is erstwhile things took a antithetic turn.

Kait said she had taken value nonaccomplishment medicine herself which saw her suffer 5.3 stone.

The mum turned to Mochi – a telehealth obesity session – that prescribed her the value nonaccomplishment cause aft being turned distant from the archetypal doctor.

Birdie was prescribed semaglutide, the progressive constituent successful Wegovy and Ozempic, pursuing a virtual consultation.

Kait told the Wall Street Journal: ‘She’s struggling with her ain self-worth and this could alleviate those issues.

‘Why wouldn’t I springiness her the instrumentality that she would request to bash that?’ 

An summation successful the usage of the cause among 12 to 15-year-old has changeable up from 8,700 successful 2020 to 60,000 successful 2023.

This is due to the fact that of the support of Wegovy for value nonaccomplishment successful children implicit property 12.

The outgo for Birdie is $79 a month, with an further $99 a period interest for the medication. 

Since taking it she has mislaid 0.7 chromatic connected apical of the 1.2 chromatic she mislaid astatine weight-loss camp.

Birdie said: ‘When I look astatine myself, I don’t person arsenic overmuch shame arsenic I did before. 

‘The happier I get, the sadder I’ll beryllium erstwhile I’m not blessed anymore.’

She said she had ‘mild nausea’ arsenic 1 of the broadside effects and her appetite is present easier to control.

But Dr Joyce Lee, a University of Michigan pediatrician, said immoderate children study utmost nausea, vomiting oregon constipation.

Family accent has besides been reduced, according to Birdie’s dad.

He said this is due to the fact that ‘the cause has eased the friction that tends to make betwixt parents and children implicit value battles, removing the request for affectional discussions astir eating’.

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