Anorexia nervosa (anorexia)
September 30th 2009 -
With the Eating disorder anorexia nervosa above all young girls and women get sick. They count calories, are hungry up to the extreme underweight and have panic fear to increase. Everything over causes, diagnosis and therapy.
Anorexia nervosa (Anorexia) is eating disorder, which occurs particularly with teenagers and young adults. It meets women clearly more frequently than men. Characteristic symptoms are:
- a strong, even caused decrease in weight up to the underweight: Lean-addicted are hungry, avoid high calorie or particularly fatty meals, drive excessive sport, do everything around their weight to lower.
- the wrong conviction to be still too thick nevertheless:
Even if they are emaciated up to the bones, the concerning at their body see still some “problem zones”, find to bacon pad where none are. Body pattern disturbance the medical profession call this phenomenon.
- as consequence of the malnutrition it comes to hormoneal changes. The rule bleeding is missing, with young girls does not use it.
From the anorexia nervosa to distinguish is the Bulimia (Bulimia nervosa). The concerning are here mostly normal or easily overweight. They have again and again hot hunger accumulations with proper binge eating followed automatically caused vomiting or the abuse of exhausting means. This concerns another, more frequent form of the eating disorder. Bulimia episodes – thus hot hunger accumulations or Binge eating with following vomiting – in addition, seem with a form to the anorexia nervosa. In addition an anorexia nervosa can change into a Bulimia and in reverse. More frequent is however the transition of an anorexia nervosa to a Bulimia.
A third, further form of an eating disorder, is the so-called Binge Eating. The concerning are mostly overweight and have frequently hot hunger accumulations with binge eating. A weight reduction by vomiting or other active measures is not caused.
With the treatment of the anorexia nervosa psychotherapy worked satisfactorily. Parallel to it the underweight with its negative consequences for the body must be repaired and a normal eating again be learned.
According to estimations approximately 0.5 per cent of the girls and women is lean addicted between 15 and 35 years. More humans are endangered by far. The disturbance is not a “mode feature”, but since more admits to than hundred years. It occurs mainly in abundance companies, which raised slim body forms to the ideal. The eating disorder can become chronic and be lethal. In nevertheless 10 to 15 per cent of the cases it ends mortally.
Also men can become lean addicted. Experts estimate their portion on approximately ten per cent. The symptoms are very similar with men and women. Men try however more frequently to lower their weight particularly by exaggerated training or physical activity.
Tags: Anorexia nervosa, Bulimia, Eating disorder
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