Girls v boys

[charlie]

I was having a chat with ellies mum Sarah and she asked an interesting question, I'm not sure if we have asked this before.

Her impression was alot of the kids discussed on here are girls but I am now interested in the statistics. How many sufferers are male and how many female, is it more prevalent in one gender?

Obviously Megs is a girl!!!! And she is very, very clear about that at the moment.

[colormist]

No idea. I think the high prevalence of females on this forum might have more to do with females (in general) are more apt to search for health answers online (I work for a company that makes health websites--70-80% of our population is female).

My brother also has HFI, but no diagnosis and not real interest in receiving a diagnosis. He didn't even know what hypoglycemia was (even though he would get it).

[Tammy]

I agree with Laura that it's just more women on here. Along with the fact that women in general are more willing to talk about things personally whereas most men talk more in the abstract. Men certainly don't usually talk about things like bad cramps and the color and smell of pee and poo......

[colormist]

Oh Tammy, you just about made me spit my coffee all over my computer monitor.

[charlie]

Tammy, ditto Laura, now Meg wants to know what the joke is ;D

[ukbill]

Tammy its all some / most men talk about! "the color and smell of pee and poo...... " well along with the usual.. sport and loud passing of internal wind of course! ;D

Seriously though, when I had some information in 1990's from RMTDC now called Climb in the the UK.

There were only about 8 known cases in the UK I think almost all were girls certainly one pair of identical twin girls with HFI stick in my mind.

So yes it seems to be more prevalent in the female gender.

Or perhaps it is less drastic in the male side so goes undiagnosed more often??

Or (less likely) Men just "tough" it out more?

Merry xmas everybody by the way