Katie Price has shared a regarding update over her son Harvey’s weight issues and worries he’s now at risk of struggling a heart attack.
The former glamour mannequin’s eldest son has been disabled since start, and the 22-year-old’s situations embrace the genetic disorder Prader-Willi syndrome, which may trigger fixed starvation.
Katie admits she’s now fearful for Harvey’s health after discovering his weight has reached nearly 30 stone.
In a submit on Snapchat, she mentioned: ‘I’m so heartbroken and gutted that his weight is simply going up. I simply googled it in stones, 188kg is only a few kg of being 30 stone.’
Katie went on to disclose that she hoped Harvey’s medical doctors would give him the inexperienced mild to begin having weight reduction jabs to assist him shed some kilos and keep wholesome.
She added: ‘I’m nonetheless ready for the medical doctors to get again to me beginning on the Mounjaro and his journey to a wholesome life. It’s so unhappy his high quality of life at the second the place he’s so huge, he simply can’t actually do a lot.
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‘It’s simply one other factor I’ve to take care of as a result of he’s at excessive risk of having a heart attack, he struggles to place his trainers or struggles to stroll wherever however I like him and I’m going to assist him by means of this.
‘So sad, obesity and his condition is sad, it’s unhappy to see somebody undergo it and he doesn’t perceive.’
Harvey can also be autistic and is partially blind due to septo-optic dysplasia, which impacts the optic nerve.
Katie beforehand shared her fears for Harvey in an interview with The Sun newspaper, insisting she is keen for him to start on a weight loss medication.
‘He’s placing on weight. It doesn’t matter what we do. He can’t put his footwear on with out sweating. He can’t stroll far as a result of he will get out of breath,’ she mentioned.
‘It’s as a result of of all the load. So the medical doctors are doing it to present him a greater, longer life, and for his health.’
Katie defined that the profit of the controversial weight reduction medicine is that ought to Harvey endure any detrimental unwanted effects, he can instantly cease taking it.
‘We’ve tried meals, he’s had dietitians, it’s simply the best way he’s. And he’s on rather a lot of medicine which the drug received’t have an effect on,’ the I’m A Celebrity star mentioned.
‘They want to try him on it for at least one or two years, which is a long time, but they’ll management what degree he wants then up it as they assess it.’
It comes after Harvey, who Katie shared with ex-partner Dwight Yorke, was rejected by his residential care as a result of he’s ‘too difficult’ simply weeks earlier than he was resulting from transfer.
On her podcast, Katie defined: ‘Harvey is supposed to be moving in four-and-a-half weeks, they’ve modified administration and mentioned they received’t be capable of cater for Harv, as a result of he’s too troublesome.
‘So now I’ve bought to seek out one other placement for him… so yeah, extra drama to take care of.’
She later added that this transfer had been ‘months and months’ within the works however with a month left to go, the association collapsed.
‘He was told four-and-a-half weeks before that he couldn’t go there, and Harvey has been doing the countdown,’ Katie mentioned.
‘Well it’s tense since you need the fitting factor on your baby, and it’s a lot of effort and time to return and do extra conferences, extra kinds, it is rather time-consuming since you need the very best on your baby.’
Katie has lengthy been an enormous advocate for her son, changing into a full-time caregiver for many of Harvey’s life. In 2020, she mentioned the troublesome choice to enrol him in a boarding facility to receive special care when she was struggling to cope.
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