Eating disorders by Paulina Amaya

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Eating disorders

 

What are eating disorders?

Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions. They involve serious problems about how one thinks about food and eating behavior. You can eat much less or much more than you need.

 Eating disorders are medical conditions. They are not a lifestyle. They affect the body's ability to obtain adequate nutrition. This can lead to health problems such as heart and kidney disease, or even death. However, there are treatments that can help.





Symptoms

Symptoms vary depending on the type of eating disorder. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder are the most common eating disorders. Other eating disorders include rumination disorder and avoidant or restrictive eating disorder.

Complications

Eating disorders can cause various complications, some of which are life-threatening. The more severe the eating disorder is or lasts, the more likely you are to develop serious complications, such as:

 

-Serious health problems.

-Depression and anxiety.

-Suicidal thoughts or behavior.

-Problems with growth and development.

-Social and relationship problems.

-Substance use disorders.

-Work and school problems

Death.

Types of disorders

1. Anorexia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is probably the best known eating disorder.

It usually develops during adolescence or early adulthood, and tends to affect women more than men.

Common symptoms of anorexia nervosa include:

Being significantly underweight compared to people of a similar age and height

highly restricted eating patterns.

An intense fear of gaining weight, or persistent behaviors to avoid gaining weight, despite being underweight.

-A elentless quest to be thin, and an unwillingness to maintain a healthy weight.

-A strong influence of body weight or perceived body shape on self-esteem.

-A distorted body image, including denial of being seriously underweight.


2. Bulimia nervosa

Bulimia nervosa is another well-known eating disorder.

Like anorexia, bulimia tends to develop during adolescence and early adulthood, and appears to be less common among men than among women.

People with bulimia often eat unusually large amounts of food in a specific amount of time.

Each binge usually continues until the person is in pain from being so full. During a binge, the person almost always feels like they can't stop eating or control how much they're eating.

Common symptoms of bulimia nervosa include:

-Recurrent episodes of binge eating with a feeling of lack of control.

-Recurrent episodes of inappropriate purging behaviors to prevent weight gain.

-A self-esteem that is too influenced by body shape and weight.

-The fear of gaining weight, despite having a normal weight.

3. Binge eating disorder

It usually begins during adolescence and early adulthood, although it can develop later in life.

People with this disorder have symptoms similar to those of bulimia or the binge-eating subtype of anorexia.

People with this disorder do not restrict calories or use purging behaviors, such as vomiting or excessive exercise, to compensate for their binges.

Common symptoms of binge eating disorder include:

-Eating large amounts of food quickly, secretly, and until discomforting fullness, despite not feeling hungry.

-Feeling out of control during binge episodes.

-Feelings of distress, such as shame, disgust, or guilt, when thinking about the binge eating behavior.

-Not using purging behaviors, such as caloric restriction, vomiting, excessive exercise, or use of laxatives or diuretics, to compensate for the binge.









References

https://www.mayoclinic.org/es-es/diseases-conditions/eating-disorders/symptoms-causes/syc-20353603

https://medlineplus.gov/spanish/eatingdisorders.html

https://www.healthline.com/health/es/trastornos-de-la-alimentacion-comun#trastorno-por-atracon

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