Eating Disorders- Anorexia Nervosa
Journal Title: Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research (BJSTR) - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Aim & Objective a) To provide deeper & novel perspective about Anorexia Nervosa, as an Eating Disorder. b) Other than focusing on book-based explanations on symptoms & treatments, to be able to get the picture of the mental disorder from the sufferers’ eyes… A. What ICD-10 says In Brief A. A disorder most often seen in adolescent females characterized by a refusal to maintain minimally normal body weight, intense fear of gaining weight, disturbance in body image, development of amenorrhea in postmenarcheal females. B. Body weight is maintained at least 15% below that expected (either lost or never achieved), or Body Mass Index (BMI) is 17.5 or less. C. The weight loss is self-induced by avoidance of ‘fattening foods’ and one or more of the following: self-induced vomiting; selfinduced purging; excessive exercise; use of appetite suppressants and/or diuretics. D. There is body-image distortion in the form of a specific psychopathology whereby a dread of fatness persists as an intrusive, overvalued idea and the patient imposes a low weight threshold on himself or herself. E. There is endocrine disorder, manifesting in women as loss of periods (amenorrhoea) and in men as a loss of sexual interest and potency. F. If onset is pre-pubertal, the sequence of pubertal events is delayed or even arrested (growth ceases; in girls the breasts do not develop and the onset of periods is delayed; in boys the genitals remain juvenile).
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Begum Engur
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- EP ID EP567181
- DOI 10.26717/BJSTR.2017.01.000123
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