Sunday, June 30, 2013

Bulimia and anorexia in young

Last years of the twentieth century is increasingly talked about mentally conditioned eating disorders that occur in adolescent period, with more and more frequency in younger children. Among the most common eating disorders are:

Anorexia - the refusal of food and
Bulimia - deliberately throwing food - vomiting.




The definition of anorexia and bulimia

Anorexia - the refusal of achieving the expected weight for a given age and height. Obsessive fear of fat, although below the expected weight for a given age and height. Invalid image of his body. There is also a health hazard. In females, the disorder occurs monthly cycle.
Bulimia - binge eating frequently and bringing more food than most people do in a short time. At the same time it loses control over the amount and type of food. Resorted to the use of medical products and high physical activity, that to exclude ingested food.

What are the symptoms and usually when starvation becomes anorexia

Onset is usually gradual. Young people are beginning to screening or reduce the amount of food, they complain about digestion - disturbances, bloating and abdominal pain and difficulty moving "due to obesity." They declare that they have no appetite, you are not hungry, to feel good, and that is often denied food refusal.
Some of them conceal appetite disturbances, taking regular meals the parents who usually require persistent and later caused vomiting or food spat and threw it when parents are not looking. The desire for food can be, but is still an adolescent does not take appetite and gradually becoming smaller and smaller.
In severe cases, the caloric value of the food eaten is very small and the parents are "surprised by which the child lives." With decreasing food intake, there are also striking emotional changes such as: apathy, depression, increased tearfulness.
Social relationships and jobs are shrinking, or may remain unchanged or get a special and unusual features.Relationships with parents, usually the mother, filled with aggression and hostility, although anorexic boys stay for a long time related to the mother. Some young people (often girls) because they are passive, anorexic boys remain long working life styles and conduct special physical exercises in order to spend "excess energy and calories." And thus contributing to weight loss.
Severe and long-lasting anorexia accompanied by physical symptoms: physical decline, sometimes to the extreme izmršavelosti, can be strikingly and covers the whole body. The skin is dry, cracked, scaly, loose, pale and elderly. Limb blood flow is very weak, and the fingertips are modričasti. The lining of the tongue is coated, dry mouth, hair of the body, head and genital areas. It is a common jail. Blood pressure and temperature are reduced.

What people point out as a cause of hunger

The desire to omršavi because girls are considered to be "fat." But there are a lot of girls "dieting" for aesthetic and self-serving motives without being anorexic.

At what age occurring eating disorders

They can occur at all ages. More often occur during puberty and adolescence, and often in girls.

How the body reacts to Anorexia and Bulimia

Body or parts of it, for example. stomach, are seen as a big, heavy, hold, and a bloated body stimuli as unpleasant and disturbing. In this case the body is unacceptable and adolescent desires slender, thin and light body. For him (it) is proof skinny body beauty, morality, wisdom, omnipotence, and courage. In addition there is a disturbance of perception stimuli that come from the body. Anorexic people despite physical weakness of dimension are less mobile and zamorljive (especially girls).

How to detect the causes of disturbance

Emotional turmoil, injury and psychological conflicts, it may cause, but are observed and anorexia for no apparent reason. Often found in anorexic and other disturbances of oral origin in early childhood rejection, separation, death in the family, neurotic responses (hysterical, forced, depression, and aksozno-phobic).

Where patients can seek help

The doctor at the primary health care, if the problem is detected during the key person in a team to solve problems. It helps a psychiatrist, psychologist, nutritionist, social worker. A major role in all of this there is a family and its position on the disorder. 

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