Eating Disorders - Mens Sans, Corpore Sans

An eating disorder is a mental illness in which theelectrolytes and minerals. The Purging disorder,
affected person eats in an unusual and unhealthyalong with the abusive use of laxatives, can bring
way. This ends up in affecting health. The eatinga long period of bowel dysfunction. Esophagus
may either be excessive, insufficient, or wrongtearing, stomach ruptures, and deadly irregularities
choices of diet. Anorexia nervosa and bulimiaof the heart beat derived from these disorders
nervosa are the two most common eatingare other complications that may result.
disorders. Anorexic people eat very little toIt is usually difficult to tell when a person suffers
nothing, and bulimic people have enormous eatingfrom an eating disorder by simply looking at them.
binges and then vomit up the food. People withThey might be people just a little overweight,
eating disorders sometimes have both disorders.they can be of normal weight, they can be very
Most ill people have severe mental depressionthin, they can be very obese. Judging by the
along with their eating disorder. Orthorexia is alsoappearance of someone with an eating disorder
considered an eating disorder. Orthorexia is whencan be very misleading, for their physical
a person is overly obsessed with what the "right"appearance might not correspond to their real
food to eat is, so they end up eating too muchhealth.
Vegan food, raw food, etc., and becomeEating disorder treatment, nevertheless, can be
nutritionally unbalanced. A bizarre yet not unusualvery effective and the person can go back to
eating disorder is Pica, in which the ill personnormal if they follow the treatment until the end.
consumes what is not generally considered food,The sooner the patient is detected as suffering
such as hair, wood, glass, metal or rubber.from an eating disorder, the more effective the
The Purging disorder is when a person takestreatment will be. Yet, the mental complications of
laxatives and vomits excessively without havinga person with such mental illness can lead to
eating binges. This person usually wants tothorough psychological and psychiatric treatment
maintain a certain amount of weight and not gainin the long run. Anorexia treatment follows three
any more. Scientists suspect that more peoplebasic steps: 1) restore the weight lost, 2)
have the Purging disorder than anorexia andpsychological treatment, 3) achieve long-term
bulimia combined.remission. Bulimia treatment is first concerned with
The physical symptoms of a person with anending eating binges and purging. In order to do
eating disorder can vary, but they are all equallythis, nutritional rehab, psychosocial intervention,
deadly. Starvation caused by Anorexia Nervosaand medication are all used.
can make most of the organ systems defective.Even though there are many effective ways of
Along with that comes constipation, very lowtreating eating disorders, the most difficult step is
heart rate, dry skin, hypotension, body hair canthe first one: admit that you have an eating
become thinner, and periods can became scarcedisorder. If the person who suffers from an
or simply not come. Anorexia causeseating disorder does not recognize their illness,
cardiovascular problems, anaemia, brain structuretreatment will not be effective because they will
modification, juvenile osteoporosis and kidneyresist it. So, the most important thing while
dysfunction.approaching an anorexic or bulimic is to maintain
Bulimia and other eating disorders that involvepersonal contact and to be open-hearted so they
vomiting can cause salivary glands to swell, thecan feel as comfortable as they can to talk about
tooth enamel to erode, and disturbances totheir problems.