ANOREXIA NERVOSA

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Form 10

1. Definition of anorexia.2. Signs and symptoms of anorexia.

3. The percentage of ill people.4. The age of fallen ill people.5. The danger of the illness.6. Treatment of anorexia.

Nervous anorexia is a serious mental and physical illness, characterized by loss of

considerable weight of the body.

Anorexia is connected with the lowered self-image and fear to gain weight.

1. Aspiration to reduce weight.2. Refusal from food.

3. Excessive physical activities and insomnia.

4. Ignoring of physical symptoms of an illness.

5. Unwillingness to recognize a problem.

Signs and symptoms of anorexia.

The majority suffering from a nervous anorexia consists of teenage girls though it can be the person of any age, including boys and men.

Anorexia nervosa is more often noted at the age of 14 — 18 years, but it's possible to see

at persons of 20 — 28 years.

Anorexia can break a concentration of attention, worsens memory, upsets a dream. Hair of the patient becomes thin, skin dry and yellowish,

nails become fragile. The deadly outcome reaches 20 % today. More often a cause of death become

exhaustion and suicide.

In many cases there must be a treatment in stationary conditions. It includes: dietetic

therapy, psychotherapy and medicinal therapy.

Treatment.

Anorexia is not a game, not a club for members of what it is possible to join. Only when you fall ill, you realizewhat misfortunes, sufferings and dangers are born with this illness.