Bulimia – Not Fatal Anymore
Author: Keith George

Bulimia is a severe eating disorder related with weight loss
psychology. During bulimia your body will lose potassium,
sodium and other important minerals, which will surely lead you
to cardiac hazards. As ladies are weight conscious, more than
75% bulimia patients are female.

Weight loss programs, which offer you an easy way to control
weight, are often the psychological starter of this serious
eating disorder. Unfortunately, their claim is true.

There are other triggers. For example, a well-known Swedish
swimmer, with several championships titles, told that the
reason she started to get into this was the words a trainer
gave her. You got to watch your weight he told her when she was
14 years old and close to join the Swedish swimming team. Ten
years later she still have problems.

What is bulimia nervosa?

This is a potentially life-threatening, very serious eating
disorder consisting of two phenomenon – binge-eating and then
purging just to withdraw calories consumed. People wants to
lose weight and they use unhealthy methods to rid the body off
the calories such as: water pills, vomiting, enemas, fasting,
extreme exercise or fasting. Purging after binge-eating just
start to minimize weight or to control weight but gradually it
become habitual and out of control.

What are the signs and symptoms of bulimia?

People having bulimia nervosa do not talk about their problem
to each and every person. Sometimes even not to their families
and close friends. Some bulimia symptoms are very elusive so
that only a doctor can point out them. You would be surprised
to know that underweight is not a symptom of bulimia and
sometimes people with bulimia fear of being fat.

Diagnostic signs and symptoms of bulimia include:

• Odd eating behaviors

a) Skipping meals
b) Sudden and unpredictable dietary likes and dislikes
c) Increased diet soda intake
d) Use water as means to make vomiting easier
e) Chewing food excessively
f) Shortening of food

• They prefer to eat in a lonely place just to keep the secrecy
about their eating habits. If you notice that someone goes
frequently after each meal, most probably he or she is
suffering from bulimia. After a meal they usually use the
toilet for purging.

They use to eat large amounts of food, but you will never note
any increase in their weight.

• Excessive, rigid exercise regimen
• Complex lifestyle schedules to get time for binge and purge
sessions. They mostly use chewing gums or mints to cover vomit
smell
• Preoccupation with weight loss, body weight, dieting and
control of food. Person with bulimia usually wear baggy clothes
to hide their body
• Callused or discolored backs of hands or finger joints
• Decalcified and discolored teeth with bleeding cheeks and
gums
• Irregular bowel movements
• Irregular menstrual periods

Types of bulimia:

• Purging type of bulimia
• Non-purging type of bulimia

Effects of bulimia:

Some of the major effects of bulimia include:

• Electrolyte imbalance
• Inflammation of the jaw, salivary glands and esophagus
• Problems with lips, gums and teeth
• Irregular bowel movements
• Depression

Bulimia nervosa is a disease that usually affects a whole
family. A mother and father will at first have great problems
to realise what the problem is with their child. Then they will
have a problem to get the child to realise there is a problem.
After that a treatment can start to work, and it will take
years.


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