Anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder resulting from excessive preoccupation with body weight, which can cause severe psychiatric problems. The person looks in the mirror and, although extremely thin, we see obese. Afraid of gaining weight, he exaggerates in physical activity, fast, fast, vomit, take laxatives and diuretics.
It is a disorder manifested primarily in young women, although its incidence is also increasing in men. Sometimes, the anorexic patients arrive quickly to cachexia, an extreme degree of malnutrition and mortality rate is as high as 15% to 20% of cases.
Symptoms
· Loss excessive weight in a short time without any justification. In more severe cases, the body mass index reaches less than 17;
Refusal to participate in family meals. Anorexics eat and argue that since they are no longer hungry;
· Exaggerated concern with the caloric value of foods. These patients come to only ingest 200 kcal per day;
· Interruption of the menstrual cycle (amenorrhea) and regression of female characteristics;
• Activate intense physical and exaggerated;
· Depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive behavior;
° panorama of the distorted body. Although extremely thin, these people judge themselves as overweight;
· SKIN extremely dry and covered with lanugo (hair-like arista).
Causes
Several factors favor the onset of illness: genetic predisposition, the current concept of fashion that determines the absolute thinness as a symbol of beauty and elegance, the pressure of family and social group and the existence of neurochemical changes in the brain, especially in the concentrations of serotonin and noradrenaline .
Recommendations
• Some professions are considered at risk for anorexia. Dancers, jockeys, Olympic athletes, need to be alert to the suffering pressure to reduce body weight;
• The age group is declining in cases of anorexia. The family needs to watch especially girls who disguise the weight loss using loose clothes and loose in the body and refuse to participate in meals at home;
· Sometimes only the family members realize what is happening when, by chance, surprising the patient with few clothes and see her skeletal body, transformed into skin and bone. In this case, it is urgent to seek specialized medical care;
• The ideal of beauty that society and the media is associated with thinness impose absolute.We must look to these calls with critical spirit and sense and not to be swayed by misleading message that can express;
• If the anorexic patient is at risk because of cachexia and psychiatric disorders should be admitted to hospital for medical treatment.
Treatment
The reintroduction of food must be gradual. Otherwise great cause cardiac overload.Sometimes, hospitalization is required for this gradual supply of calories is controlled by nutritionists.
There is no specific medication for anorexia nervosa. Antidepressant drugs can help alleviate symptoms of depression, anxiety and compulsive. In general, treatment of anorexic patients requires multidisciplinary teamwork.
It is a disorder manifested primarily in young women, although its incidence is also increasing in men. Sometimes, the anorexic patients arrive quickly to cachexia, an extreme degree of malnutrition and mortality rate is as high as 15% to 20% of cases.
Symptoms
· Loss excessive weight in a short time without any justification. In more severe cases, the body mass index reaches less than 17;
Refusal to participate in family meals. Anorexics eat and argue that since they are no longer hungry;
· Exaggerated concern with the caloric value of foods. These patients come to only ingest 200 kcal per day;
· Interruption of the menstrual cycle (amenorrhea) and regression of female characteristics;
• Activate intense physical and exaggerated;
· Depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive behavior;
° panorama of the distorted body. Although extremely thin, these people judge themselves as overweight;
· SKIN extremely dry and covered with lanugo (hair-like arista).
Causes
Several factors favor the onset of illness: genetic predisposition, the current concept of fashion that determines the absolute thinness as a symbol of beauty and elegance, the pressure of family and social group and the existence of neurochemical changes in the brain, especially in the concentrations of serotonin and noradrenaline .
Recommendations
• Some professions are considered at risk for anorexia. Dancers, jockeys, Olympic athletes, need to be alert to the suffering pressure to reduce body weight;
• The age group is declining in cases of anorexia. The family needs to watch especially girls who disguise the weight loss using loose clothes and loose in the body and refuse to participate in meals at home;
· Sometimes only the family members realize what is happening when, by chance, surprising the patient with few clothes and see her skeletal body, transformed into skin and bone. In this case, it is urgent to seek specialized medical care;
• The ideal of beauty that society and the media is associated with thinness impose absolute.We must look to these calls with critical spirit and sense and not to be swayed by misleading message that can express;
• If the anorexic patient is at risk because of cachexia and psychiatric disorders should be admitted to hospital for medical treatment.
Treatment
The reintroduction of food must be gradual. Otherwise great cause cardiac overload.Sometimes, hospitalization is required for this gradual supply of calories is controlled by nutritionists.
There is no specific medication for anorexia nervosa. Antidepressant drugs can help alleviate symptoms of depression, anxiety and compulsive. In general, treatment of anorexic patients requires multidisciplinary teamwork.
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