Complications of Anorexia and Bulimia
Complications of Anorexia and Bulimia
Anorexia and Bulimia are behavioral problems brought on by many factors, which include emotional and personality disorders, family pressures, a possible genetic tie, and a culture in which there is too much food and an obsession with being thin.
Bulimia is more common than anorexia, and it usually begins early in a person’s life. It is known by cycles of vomiting, and is typically triggered when a young woman attempts a diet, fails, and reacts by binge eating. (Binge eating involves eating larger than normal amounts of food within a 2-hour period.)
After binging, the patient compensate, usually by vomiting, using enemas, or taking laxatives, diet pills, or drugs.
Patients then go back to severe dieting, excessive exercise, or both. The cycle then reverts back to bingeing and then to purging again.
In some cases, the condition progresses to anorexia. Most people with bulimia, however, have a normal to high-normal body weight, although it may fluctuate by more than 10 pounds because of the binge-vomit cycle.
Young people who occasionally force vomiting after eating too much are not considered bulimic, and most of the time this occasional unhealthy behavior does not continue beyond youth.
The term "anorexia" literally means loss of appetite. Anorexia involves avoidance to food that leads to a state of starvation. It is a very serious illness that some doctors believe is an entirely different condition from bulimia and should be not be diagnosed as a simple eating disorder.
Patients with anorexia lose at least 15% to as much as 60% of normal body weight is lost.
The patient with anorexia nervosa has an intense fear of gaining weight, even when severely underweight.
Individuals with anorexia have a distorted image of their own weight or shape and deny the health problems despite their low weight. Typically, women with anorexia miss at least three consecutive menstrual periods. Patients with this condition are
Anorexia and Bulimia are behavioral problems brought on by many factors, which include emotional and personality disorders, family pressures, a possible genetic tie, and a culture in which there is too much food and an obsession with being thin.
Bulimia is more common than anorexia, and it usually begins early in a person’s life. It is known by cycles of vomiting, and is typically triggered when a young woman attempts a diet, fails, and reacts by binge eating. (Binge eating involves eating larger than normal amounts of food within a 2-hour period.)
After binging, the patient compensate, usually by vomiting, using enemas, or taking laxatives, diet pills, or drugs.
Patients then go back to severe dieting, excessive exercise, or both. The cycle then reverts back to bingeing and then to purging again.
In some cases, the condition progresses to anorexia. Most people with bulimia, however, have a normal to high-normal body weight, although it may fluctuate by more than 10 pounds because of the binge-vomit cycle.
Young people who occasionally force vomiting after eating too much are not considered bulimic, and most of the time this occasional unhealthy behavior does not continue beyond youth.
The term "anorexia" literally means loss of appetite. Anorexia involves avoidance to food that leads to a state of starvation. It is a very serious illness that some doctors believe is an entirely different condition from bulimia and should be not be diagnosed as a simple eating disorder.
Patients with anorexia lose at least 15% to as much as 60% of normal body weight is lost.
The patient with anorexia nervosa has an intense fear of gaining weight, even when severely underweight.
Individuals with anorexia have a distorted image of their own weight or shape and deny the health problems despite their low weight. Typically, women with anorexia miss at least three consecutive menstrual periods. Patients with this condition are