Anorexia

What is anorexia?

Anorexia nervosa can be considered an alteration by default, habits and / or involved in feeding behavior. People who have spent most of his time to food items and everything related to it. The preoccupation with food and fear of gaining weight are the essence of this disorder, along with personal insecurity to deal with this problem. They deny the disease and collecting fat somewhere on your body though skeletal in appearance. Menstrual irregularity and occurs later amenorrhea or impotence in men.

symptoms:

Refusal to maintain body weight over minimum normal weight age and height stop2 - Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even if you are underweight.3 - distorted perception of weight, size or shape of your body.4 - In women, the absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles5 - abnormally low body weight6 - Maintenance deliberate that body weight through diet, exercise, abuse laxatives or diuretics, or a combination of all three.7 - Symptoms of starvation

treatment:

immediately consult a specialist in adolescence, who confirmed the diagnosis and appropriate treatment arise.

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