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Eating disorders are common among girls and young women. They result from a psychological problem that causes inadequate or excessive food consumption. Two major eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa" which can be fatal caused by severe dehydration from vomiting or laxatives using.
Explanation:
Bulimia nervosa also known as simply bulimia,is a serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by a cycle of bingeing and compensatory behaviors such as self-induced vomiting designed to undo or compensate for the effects of binge eating. Heart failure, due to extreme electrolyte imbalance, is the most common cause of sudden death in bulimia and in reality, a bulimic could die from purging. As the disorder progresses, chronic self-induced vomiting can cause a variety of symptoms in the digestive tract, beginning at the mouth, rupture your esophagus and cause blood in vomit. Over time, the high acid content of vomit can damage teeth and cause enamel erosion, tooth sensitivity, and gum disease. Among women, rates are highest in young adults. Bulimia was named and first described by the British psychiatrist Gerald Russell in 1979.
The main difference between diagnoses is that anorexia nervosa is a syndrome of self-starvation involving significant weight loss of 15 percent or more of ideal body weight, whereas patients with bulimia nervosa are, by definition, at normal weight or above.
The recommended first-line treatment for bulimia nervosa is a combination of nutritional counseling, medications and cognitive behavioral therapy.
