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Bulimia
Bulimia is a disorder of eating behavior. Like anorexia is reinforced by the pressure that women feel to be beautiful and be thin.
Usually they are people with the right weight. Do not present the image can be seen in skeletal to anorexia. Bulimia is characterized by episodes where a person eats a lot and then vomiting or purging occurs. Bulimia can lead to anorexia.
Bulimia Like other eating disorders is related to:
- Low self-esteem
- Family Problems
- Fear of growth or to take responsibility
- Social pressure
Some features of bulimia
- Obsession with food.
- Episodes of eating an exaggerated and then vomiting occur. They do it in secret.
- Use of laxatives after over-eating also secretly
- Make a lot of exercises after the episodes about eating
- They lose the sense of fullness that normal people have.
- Irregular menstrual periods
- Damage to the teeth by frequent vomiting.
- Brittle nails
- Depression or irritability, frequent
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Characteristic Of Bulimics
1. Patients more difficult to detect because of their body weight may exceed normal limits, under the normal limit, or even have a normal body weight.
2. Usually the patient is a woman, both teens and young adults.
3. Its main characteristics can be seen from the diet such as eating in significant amounts, and then thrown back or taking laxatives and diuretics to drugs brings back food was eaten.
4. Having some health issues that arise from habit brings back food after eaten, such as injury to the abdominal wall, inflammation of the appendix, irregular heartbeat, kidney damage due to low potassium intake, the destruction of tooth enamel due to the creation of excessive acid production when vomiting , and cessation of menstruation.
5. Anger suspended due to the inability to express emotion in the usual way. Bulimics are usually afraid to disappoint the people they love in their environment. Bulimia can be followed by the occurrence of anorexia. Many factors causing abnormalities in the diet such as genetic disorders, social pressure to be thin, pressure from peers, and others. Proceeds from the environment is a first step in healing disorders anorexia and bulimia. Most people still live in denial and refuse to be helped.