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|  Abnormality in the food habits acquires an original epidemic dimension, especially among young girls, striving to imitate their celebrity idols. Nervous anorexia - formally called anorexia nervosa – is a bad systemic disease, of which, unfortunately, not everybody is familiar.
Nobody is to be blamed in anorexia. Anorexia does not at all mean, that the child was not brought up by the parents. Cultural, genetical and individual factors closely interact with the developments of life, which gives a favorable ground for the rise of development of disturbance in the food habits of psychological character.
In anorexia there is no pleasure. Many people, who obey the consumptive diets, rashly state, that dreaming to get sick of anorexia. They see only evident developments of the disease – excessive leaning, however don’t notice all dangers of this “fancy” disease.
Anorexia patients rather don’t be proud of their ideal figure and doesn’t feel themselves unimaginably beautiful; if you speak with such persons, you will come to know many new things of him – for example, what a girl, weighing 55 kilograms with a height of meter eighty, considers herself fat, not beautiful and not stylish. Anorexia patients suffer from intemperate feeling of self failure; they are feared and driven in a corner by self fear.
It’s not so simple to get rid of anorexia, this is not that disease which makes reminds about it once in a month. Consciousness of the patients with anorexia doesn’t belong to them, they cannot control their feelings. Such persons are literally intellectual obsessed regarding weight, food, extra calories and form of their own body. Many of the diseased are tortured even during sleep – they are haunted by nightmares, obtrusive dreams about food and nutrition. And during sleep poor sufferer and martyr keeps on counting calories and gets frightened with 100 collected grams. Anorexia – most violent disease, which snatches out its victim from normal life and doom her to loneliness. Anorexia very hardly gives away to treatment. Sometimes in war with it goes on complete years.
Anorexia may bring to lethal outcome. By the way anorexia holds the highest percentage of mortality among psychological diseases. In case for you or your known, appears symptoms of disturbance in food habits, act with out delay – approach to a doctor for help.
Specific symptoms of anorexia: Patient with anorexia primarily differs in reluctance of preserving the weight, corresponding to his constitution, age and height. To be accurate, normal weight of an individual must make 85% or less percentage of weight, which is considered as standard for a human being of such physique, age and height.
Generally, victim of anorexia continuously feels relentless horror of becoming fat and adding extra weight, where this fear covers away all other feelings and emotions. This fear does not consider with the real weight of the person, and does not relieve its victims even when it is at the step of death from exhaustion. First of all, causes for anorexia are self-rated lowly, which is also one of the basic symptoms of this serious illness. Patient with anorexia considers, that his weight, parameters of the figure and sizes are directly related to self-sensation and individual status. Victims of anorexia often deny seriousness of their condition and could not count their weight visually.
One more symptom characteristic for women, - disturbance in the menstrual cycle and absence of at least three menstruations in order. Particularly, for women it is diagnosed as “amenorrhea” (absence of menstruation), if at all menstruation starts for her it is only after the hormonal therapy (for example, intake of estrogen).
There are two different types of nervous anorexia:
- Restricted – patient voluntarily restricts food intake and does not over eat till it is dumped, and afterwards induce vomiting.
- Purgative – patient over eats, and afterwards induce vomiting or abuse of weak, diuretics or enemas.
In distinction from depression or panic of assault, nervous anorexia is poorly treated. There are no universal and effective medicines against anorexia. First of all, doctors write medicines of general prescription, which are used for any problems regarding health, for example, anomaly of electrolysis or disorder of cardiac rhythm.
Antidepressants: Most of the patients with nervous anorexia also suffer from depression, and some of the symptoms of this disease could be put aside with the help of antidepressants. However, there is no given data, proving effectiveness of antidepressants in the treatment of anorexia. More over antidepressants may have different side effects, which will only aggravate the condition of the patient. Experiments have shown, that anorexia treatment will go more effective, when weight of the patients approaches to normal.
Tranquilizers: short acting tranquilizers under the name benzodiazepines may help patients of anorexia to overcome the danger. These medicines cause addiction that is why it is not worth while to take them for the treatment of patients with narcotic or alcoholic dependence.
Estrogen: women, suffering from anorexia are subject to high risk of formation of ruptures; this is because of osteoporosis. Absence of menstruation and low weight may provoke condition, near to early menopause. There are opinions, as if intake of estrogen may help some women compensate the insufficiency of minerals in bones and prevent the formation of fissures in future.
In those conditions, when anorexia accompanies severe disease, and also weight of the patient falls repeatedly and comes to less than 15% of normal weight, immediate hospitalization is necessary. |
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