Posts Tagged ‘anorexia’
Guidance to Treatment Eating Disorders
As for the guidance of treatment, recommended to go to a specialist, psychiatrist, who “will be supported by the clinical psychologist and the help of a nutritionist, endocrinologist and other medical specialists if necessary.”
It also says that “it is easy for the patient himself becomes aware of the problem and accept without further intervention.” “If you are under age, I think the most responsible way is to put the case in the hands of a specialist in mental disorders and he decides on the measures to be taken,” he warns.
In most cases patients are unaware of the problem, especially in the case of anorexia nervosa, where “there is no sense of loss of control but on the contrary, to the extent that it avoids the food, more sense of control and satisfaction you have. ”
It warns that it is essential that prevention campaigns abandon idea of reporting on these conditions and its serious consequences because it “can be counterproductive.” On the contrary, advises programs that help develop personal growth. Read the rest of this entry »
Obsession with Dieting and Eating Disorders
Obsession eating disorder by the diets and eating disorders with the arrival of summer comes the obsession with dieting and make sacrifices in power, which “can become the gateway to the eating disorders,” explains Professor Luis Rojo, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Valencia and section chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Food Disorders, University Hospital La Fe de Valencia and member of the Executive Committee of the Spanish Society of Psychiatry (SEP).
Red alert on many occasions trying to remove a few kilos in summer can be a risk factor for suffering from anorexia, a disease that has become the third most common chronic disease among adolescents, and as an early symptom of anorexia. “We know that the more intense is the diet that is done, the greater the risk of occurrence of these disorders. In the more or less readily to display these phenomena affect individual vulnerability, “he adds.
Also remember that “the stereotype of beauty in our culture, significantly thinner, is a great facilitator to be launched behaviors that pose a clear risk of developing an eating disorder.”
Currently, the anorexia nervosa in young people aged 10 to 19 are about 35 cases per 100,000 population per year, and bulimia nervosa in about 36 per 100,000 per year in young people aged 10 to 19. In general, the usual age of onset is between 13 and 16 years, and is usually much more common among girls than among boys. Read the rest of this entry »