Bulimia Nervosa : Cheating Stomach to loose weight

You wake up in the morn and while brushing your teeth you had goose bumps when you just look at your tummy. Suddenly you thought you should watch your weight. From that day you started to do something what we can call “Cheating Your Stomach”.

Right now a thousand of people, especially teenage girls are trying to find out something that can help them to loose their weight just like magic.

To get all fat removed, the most weird concept is “Have food to your hearts content and the just throw up.. PUKE...”

You can ask that, why a person eats a lot and then just pukes… the answer is, he/ she don’t want to let the family and friends know that he/she is watching weight. Thus he/she thinks him/herself cool.

This concept is known as Bulimia Nervosa. This is some sort of eating disorder which is characterized by recurrent binge eating and then compensatory behaviors like forced vomiting, excessive work-out, enema, abuse of lipodissolves etc.

How can it be identified?

It can be diagnosed by the criteria listed below:

• Binge eating: It’s like eating frenzy. Which is characterized by following criteria:
  • Eating abnormal amount of food in a short period of time.
  • A lack of control over eating habits.
• Compensation: To compensate that eating frenzy, that person performs some inappropriate attitudes such as: self-induced vomiting; abuse of lipodissolves or other drugs; fasting; work-out for long period.
• Poor Self-esteem: Inferiority complex regarding body weight, height and figure.

Effect that Bulimia Nervosa exerts:

In this case, body faces two of just opposite processes and it is very much unsafe to health. Some of these are as follows:

• Erosion of enamel of teeth, lining epithelium of mouth and ulceration inside the mouth.
• Lacerated or cut wounds inside the mouth, palate, epiglottis and upper part of pharynx.
• Reflux esophagitis, rupture of esophageal varises.
• Abnormal gag reflex.
• Water and electrolyte (sodium, potassium, bicarbonate etc) imbalance.
• Infection and damage to the salivary glands resulting in Dry Mouth, dysphagia etc.
• Malnutrition and abnormal weight loss.
• Decreased stamina and working efficiency.
• Agitation.

Prevention:

It can be prevented by some measures:

• Proper counseling.
• Providing clear idea about BMI (body mass index).
• Close monitoring during food intake.
• Healthy eating habits.
• Exercise and work-out in a regular basis.

This is a Psychological disorder related with body weight. Family members and friends should come forward to change the mentality of the person suffering from this disorder and help him/her to lead a healthful life….