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Bulimia can affect anyone: male, female, young, old, and all races. These patients can present with normal weight or they may be underweight or overweight. The patient may use pills (diet pills, diuretics, or laxitives). They may often take trips to the bathroom after eating (suggested that they use this time to purge after a meal) and may exercise despite weather, injury, or energy levels to control their weight. <ref name="Office on Women's Health" /> | |||
Signs of self-induced vomiting include: swelling of the patient's cheeks/jaws, calluses or scrapes on the knuckles, clear-looking teeth, broken blood vessels in the eyes. Patients with bulimia nervosa may also present with other mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, distorted body image (thoughts and verbal expressions of hating body, image of being fat despite thin appearance, and fear of gaining weight), and reports from family and friends on activity not "normal" for the person (i.e. moody, sad, unsocialable). <ref name="Office on Women's Health" /> | |||
== Associated Co-morbidities == | == Associated Co-morbidities == |
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Definition/Description[edit | edit source]
A condition during which a person eats a large amount of food in a short amount of time (binges), then uses some method of purging to avoid weight gain. Methods of purging include self-induced vomiting, use of laxatives or diuretics, and excessive exercise. [1]
Two types of bulimia nervosa have been defined. The purging type which involves self-induced vomiting or use of other forms of compensation to avoid weight gain after binge eating; this cycle must be performed on a regular basis to be diagnosed as such. The non-purging type of bulimia involves the use of excessive exercise or dieting/fasting to prevent/avoid weight gain. [2]
Prevalence[edit | edit source]
The incidence of people suffering from bulimia has increased over the last 30-40 years. Around 1 to 2% of females in late adolescence and adult women meet the diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa. [2]
About 80% of people with bulimia nervosa are female. [3]
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Bulimia can affect anyone: male, female, young, old, and all races. These patients can present with normal weight or they may be underweight or overweight. The patient may use pills (diet pills, diuretics, or laxitives). They may often take trips to the bathroom after eating (suggested that they use this time to purge after a meal) and may exercise despite weather, injury, or energy levels to control their weight. [1]
Signs of self-induced vomiting include: swelling of the patient's cheeks/jaws, calluses or scrapes on the knuckles, clear-looking teeth, broken blood vessels in the eyes. Patients with bulimia nervosa may also present with other mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, distorted body image (thoughts and verbal expressions of hating body, image of being fat despite thin appearance, and fear of gaining weight), and reports from family and friends on activity not "normal" for the person (i.e. moody, sad, unsocialable). [1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Office on Women's Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2009. Available from: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Web site: http://www.womenshealth.gov/faq/bulimia-nervosa.cfm. Accessed February 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Academy for Eating Disorders. Web site: http:// www.aedweb.org/eating_disorders/index.cfm. Accessed February 2010.
- ↑ National Eating Disorders Association. Web site: http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/nedaDir/files/documents/handouts/Bulimia.pdf. Accessed February 2010.