BULIMIA BULIMIA NERVOSANERVOSA

What is Bulimia?What is Bulimia?• Bulimia: a disease in which a person

binge eats and then feels a loss of control, so they vomit or use laxatives to prevent the weight gain.

CausesCauses• Genetic

• Psychological

• Trauma

• Family

• Society

• Cultural factors

• No one knows the exact cause of Bulimia

Symptoms others should watch for • Binge eating - several times a day• Only eat high-calorie foods, normally eating secretly • Body weight is often in the normal range, people often

don’t know when others are bulimic. • Excessive exercising• Extreme use of laxatives, diet pills, emetics

(drugs that induce vomiting), or diuretics

(drugs that reduce fluids, also called water pills)• Regularly going to the bathroom right after meals,

usually to vomit• Suddenly eating large amounts of food or buying large quantities

of food that disappear right away, quickly because of binges

Physical Symptoms • Esophagus problems • Irregular menstrual

cycle • Constipation• Swollen cheeks• Dental erosion• Weakness

everywhere• Swollen glands • calluses and scabs on

the back of the hand from vomiting

• Vocal chord damage• Hair loss/ dry skin

• Stomach ulcers• Dental Damage• Organ Damage

• Insomnia• Body temp decrease

• Low red blood cell count

• Irregulat heart beat

Physiological Symptoms

• Anxiety• Depression• Poor body image • Mood swings• Can’t control feelings• Constant thought of food• Avoiding others• Unable to eat with others around

• Anxiety• Depression• Poor body image • Mood swings• Can’t control feelings• Constant thought of food• Avoiding others• Unable to eat with others around

Binge & Purge• Binge: eating a lot of food all at one time • Purge: an unwanted feeling, giving a cathartic release.

1. First you go on a diet not eating certain foods. You starve yourself from those foods.

2. Then you become so hungry you given in and eat them because you crave them so badly.

3. Once you eat you feel that you broke your diet so you might as well go all the way and keep eating.

4. You then feel bad about yourself and breaking your diet that you purge by using laxative, exercising, or vomiting.

5. Then the purge makes you to launce a new diet and the cycle starts over.

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TreatmentsMay be hospitalized if…- Withdrawal from drugs used during the disease - Major depression is present- turns to anorexia Other Treatments- Support groups - Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and

nutritional therapy is the preferred first treatment for bulimia that does not respond to support groups.

- Drugs used for bulimia are typically antidepressants known as selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors

STATSSTATS• Peaks during puberty- late teen, early

adult• Usually in white Caucasian females.• 64% seem to be normal weight• Kids as young as 6 have been

reported to have bulimia• Conservative figures show that

150,000 women die each year from dieting- related causes.

• The average fashion model is 5'9" to 6' tall weighing 110-118lbs. The average American woman is 5' 4" tall weighing142lbs.

Bibliography • http://www.bulimiahelp.org/book/bulimia-over

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• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001381/

• http://bulimiasideeffects.com/ • http://www.popcrunch.com/30-famous-people

-who-have-suffered-from-bulimia/• http://www.helpguide.org/mental/bulimia_sign

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