Anorexia

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by immoderate food restriction and irrational fear of gaining weight, as well as a distorted body self-perception.

The term comes from Greek and is used generally to describe the lack of appetite, this symptom can occur in very different circumstances, such as feverishness , general and digestive diseases or just in temporary situations of everyday life.

Anorexia or anorexia nervosa (AN) is coupled with bulimia major eating disorders, psychogenic disorders also called Food (TFA).

Symptoms

 Most of the physical symptoms are a consequence of the malnutrition and of the consequent deficit of macronutrients, vitamins and minerals.

PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS

Excessive loss of weight.

The index of corporal mass is minor to 17,5 in the adults, or 85 % of the weight expected for the children.

 Pale aspect and sunken eyes; swelling of eyes and ankle.

 Delay of the growth

Symptoms behavior:

Voluntary rejection of the hyper caloric food.

Increase of the ingestion of liquids.

Auto-aggression.

Self-induced vomits.

Emotional and mental symptoms:

Obsessive thought related to the weight and the food.

Severe disorder of the corporal image.

 Pictures of anxiety, depression, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and conducts aggressive.

 Denial of the sensations of hunger, difficulty in sleeping

Partial or total denial of the disease.

Interpersonal and social symptoms:

Distancing of the friends.

 Social isolation.

Lost the family relations.

Lack of such basic needs as eating and sleeping.