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Article #174: Eating Disorder in Children

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Eating disorders also called is Anorexia Amenorrhea (absence of menstrual cycles)
nervosa and Bulimia. Eating disorders is or delayed onset of puberty and menarche.
important to recognize that each factor Parents may first suspect a problem when
plays a role in predisposing, they discover large amounts of food are
precipitating, or perpetuating the missing from the pantry or the
problem. Anorexia nervosa compulsive refrigerator, though it's hard to imagine
eating are the most common among such one child could have eaten so much.
young children, but there are cases of Mothers with eating disorders may have a
bulimia being reported. It is usually difficult time feeding their infants and
begins at the age of fourteen or fifteen, young children and will further effect
with another peak in incidence in the child. Often the family environment
eighteen year olds. It is estimated that will be less cohesive, more conflicted,
40% of nine year olds have already dieted and less supportive. People with bulimia
and we are beginning to see four and five may be anywhere from underweight, to
year olds expressing the need to diet. normal weight, to overweight. It is
It's a shame that children so young are estimated that as much as 3% of
being robbed of their childhoods. college-aged women have bulimia. Other
Children raised in a dysfunctional family signs found in teens with eating
are at a higher risk for developing an disorders include having dry and brittle
eating disorder. In a home where physical hair, losing hair, and having muscle
or sexual abuse is taking place, the wasting.
child may turn to an eating disorder to Treatment of eating disorders is slow and
gain a sense of control. Children may difficult (and sometimes requires
also develop eating disorders as a way of hospitalization) and should be overseen
dealing with the many emotions that they by a mental health. Exercise is also an
feel, especially if they are raised in a important part of everyone's life and we
home that does not allow feelings to be need to help our children become involved
expressed. Children who are compulsive in physical activity. Patients with
eaters are usually using food to help anorexia also require nutritional and
them deal with feelings of anger, medical intervention to make dietary. Do
sadness, hurt, loneliness, abandonment, not criticize your own or your child's
fear and pain. There are many serious weight, shape or size. Different types of
complications of anorexia, including therapy can help treat binge eating
fainting from low blood pressure, disorder. For example, family therapy and
electrolyte disorders, being intolerant cognitive behavioral therapy teach people
to cold, constipation, decreased energy, techniques to monitor and change their
changes in mood, anemia, kidney failure eating habits and the way they respond to
and osteoporosis (brittle bones). stress. Family therapy includes the whole
Eating disorders can cause heart and family in the process of helping the
kidney problems and even death. Genetic individual. Cognitive-behavioral therapy
attributes and it is more common in combines the approach of helping the
children who have a first-degree relative individual change their self-defeating
with an eating disorder. Children are at thoughts with changing their behavior.
a risk for developing an eating disorder Counseling also helps patients look at
if the parents themselves are to relationships they have with others and
preoccupied with appearance and weight. helps them work on areas that cause them
Eating disorder risk factors is purging anxiety. Weight-control programs are
behaviors (vomiting or using diuretics helpful for some people affected by binge
(water pills) or laxatives to lose eating. The medical treatment of bulimia
weight). Restrictive eating patterns, has concentrated on antidepressants ,
which can lead to a failure to gain particularly fluoxetine, which has been
weight or to being underweight and can found to decrease binge eating and
include skipping meals, fasting, or vomiting for about two-thirds of bulimic
eliminating entire food groups. patients.






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