Sunday, October 7, 2018

Different Eating Disorders and their Symptoms

          Most people commonly know of one or two common eating disorders, which are Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervous. Another is Binge eating disorder, which is when you spend a weekend binge watching your favorite show on Netflix. Instead of watching shows or movies all day, you’re eating a lot more than usual and not controlling how much you are eating. (Bhandari, 2017)
         
          Anorexia eating disorder is the most common and well known to people that know very little information about the disorder. A person with anorexia tend to have the fear of gaining weight, but they don’t want to try to maintain a healthy weight either. (Ekern, 2018) They would basically be underweight and that could lead to health conditions, besides having the eating disorder. When I had thought of the consequences of a person having anorexia, I had just thought they would become very ill from not eating on a daily basics. Or not getting the vitamins and nutrients that we as humans need every day. Without eating regularly could result in serious health damages, like brain damage, muti-organ failure, bone loss, heart difficulties, infertility and for high risk people could die from this disease. (Ekern, 2018)
         
          Another common eating disorder is Bulimia, just like anorexia it could be a life threatening disorder. Some people might think that bulimia is the same as anorexia but no, because with this disorder the person is pretty much binge eating secretly. Once they eat a large amount and not control the amounts of food they’re in taking, they soon realize it and try to get rid of all those extra calories in a very unhealthy way. (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2010) To me it seems like bulimia is the next step up from a person having anorexia, which seems a more sever disease. Some of the symptoms could be living in fear of gaining weight, loss of control when binge eating, forcing yourself to vomit or over exercising to not gain weight after eating. (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2010) Having bulimia really does effect a person by how many times they purge after obsessively eating, which is at least once a week for three months.
         
          Pica is an uncommon eating disorder that people don’t know much about it or nothing at all, people with this disorder eating items/things that don’t have any health or no nutritional value to their bodies. This type of disorder is most likely occurs with children and pregnant women, also in people with intellectual disabilities. (Holm & Krucik, 2016) Pica isn’t a long term disorder like anorexia or bulimia, it’s more of a temporary disease. Some people could have a tendency have trouble with their iron and zinc levels or any other kind of low level nutrients the person has. Dieting can also lead to having pica, when a person feels hungry they gravitate to eating nonfood items that could be harmful to the body, but it tends to help them feel full.(Holm & Krucik, 2016) When eating nonfood things it can obviously lead to some serious conditions like poisoning (lead), parasitic infections, intestinal blood blockage and chocking.


Citation:
Bhandari, Simatha. “Signs of an Eating Disorder.” WebMD, WebMD, 17 Aug. 2017, www.webmd.com/mental-health/eating-disorders/signs-of-eating-disorders. October 1, 2018
 Ekern, Jacquelyn. “Eating Disorders: Symptoms, Signs, Causes & Articles For Treatment Help.” Eating Disorder Hope, EatingDisorderHope.com, 11 July 2018, www.eatingdisorderhope.com/information/eating-disorder#Signs-amp-Symptoms-of-an-Eating-Disorder. October 1, 2018
May Clinic Staff. “Bulimia Nervosa.” Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 10 May 2018. www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bulimia/symptoms-causes/syc-20353615. October 3, 2018
Holm, Gretchen, and George Krucik. “What Causes Pica?” Healthline, 29 Feb. 2016, www.healthline.com/symptom/pica. October 3, 2018



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