Feeding and Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are serious conditions related to persistent eating behaviors that negatively impact your health, your emotions, and your ability to function in important areas of life. Most eating disorders involve focusing too much on your weight, body shape, and food, leading to dangerous eating behaviors. These behaviors can significantly impact your body’s ability to get appropriate nutrition. Eating disorders can harm the heart, digestive system, bones, and teeth and mouth, and lead to other diseases.The most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder.
Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
A person with BED losses control over their eating and eats a very large amount of food in a short period of time. They may also eat large amounts of food even when not hungry or uncomfortably full.
Anorexia Nervosa
With anorexia, people restrict their food intake and use other methods of weight loss including exercise and diet pills to control their weight. People with anorexia are at greater risk of cardiac concerns that people with other eating disorders often experience cold in their extremities, and can develop fine hairs(“lanugo”) over their body.
Bulimia Nevosa
With bulimia, people will secretly eat large amounts of food and then purge the food they have eaten, causing a number of health concerns including dental decay, GERD and erosion of the esophagus due to excessive self-induced vomiting.
Possible Behaviors Associated with Disordered Eating
- Skipping meals or making excuses for not eating
- Adopting an overly restrictive vegetarian diet
- Excessive focus on healthy eating
- Making own meals rather than eating what the family eats
- Withdrawing from normal social activities
- Persistent worry or complaining about being fat and talk of losing weigh
- Frequent checking in the mirror for perceived flaws
- Repeatedly eating large amounts of sweets or high-fat foods
- Use of dietary supplements, laxatives or herbal products for weight loss
- Excessive exercise
- Calluses on the knuckles from inducing vomiting
- Problems with loss of tooth enamel that may be a sign of repeated vomiting
- Leaving during meals to use the toilet
- Eating much more food in a meal or snack than is considered normal
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Your provider will discuss medications at your visit and develop a regimen that is right for you.
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Follow-up appointments will be scheduled to meet your needs and frequency of follow-up appointments will be determined by you and your provider.
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