Bulimia
Disease information
Bulimia
The word
bulimia
means "ox hunger" and the
disease
is associated to the idea of not wanting to get fat, although the person "does not feel like nor sees fat person".
This
disease
has
been increased much, in much due to the publicity and fashion that establishes like "acceptable" the thin people.
It is characterized by the fast ingestion of
a
great amount of foods in
a
short
period
, for later motivated by the sense of culpability by the abuse to eat, causes that the patients autoinduzcan the vomit or use in indiscriminate form laxative to accelerate the evacuation and to prevent that the nutrimentos penetrate to the sanguineous torrent.
Also the diuréticos and the accomplishment of excessive physical exercises are used, with the purpose of annulling the effect of consumed foods.
According to some studies, the ill people compulsively usually eat, faster than the
normal
thing and in greater amount, the stuffings are made solo, since it exists
a
great fault and
depression
and
fear
to express or to that others realize of which they are doing.
Due to the form in which it is to avoid the integration of foods to the organism, by means of vomits and / or laxatives,
a
great imbalance can be generated
organic
that can cause serious upheavals of the digestive
system
, irreversible damages in the
stomach
,
esophagus
and mouth, mainly in
encías
,
dehydration
, undernourishment,
anemia
and even end at the death, by the excessive loss of
potassium
, which causes
problems
cardiac
.
Two types of
bulimia
exist
nervosa
: The purgativo type describes to the people who regularly car induce the vomit, abuse laxatives, diuréticos and enemas.
The nonpurgativo type describes to the people who regularly ayunan or diets are applied excessively or make exercise of
compulsive
form.
IMPORTANT:
The content of this note, does not replace the medical diagnosis, it only appears as information and the same we are not made people in
charge
on its use.
References:
The Line of the
Health
of Lolita Ayala.
Educacio'n
Me'dica
Conti'nua S.
A
. of
C
. V.
Magazine of
nutrition
:
Anorexia
and
Bulimia
.
National
institute of the
Nutrition
, Salvador Zubirán.
Manual of Diagnoses.
American
society of Psychiatry. DSM IV)
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