Bulimia causes of disease and treatment-Part Four

causes

They are complex, the most important are the psychological, social, cultural and genetic reasons.

Most often bulimic crises triggered by stress associated with increasing voltage. But the disease was conceived long before. It is believed that the beginnings of bulimia are rooted more in the embryonic period of human development.

Psycho-emotional climate in which the pregnancy, the behavior of the pregnant woman and her relatives are crucial. Inappropriate attitude and all the negative experiences during this period led to damage the psyche of the child. More then sow the seeds of guilt that thrive later in the form of bulimic crises / uncontrolled ingestion of food / who are stereotyped way to relieve distress.

Bulimia is a lack of unconditional love from parents. Overeating is a kind of protest, a cry for help, compensatory / but satisfying / saturation of the senses, speaks of a certain infantilism.
Irregular and incomplete emptying of the colon also creates conditions for the development of bulimia. Due to the constant feeling of fullness in the abdomen, such people almost constantly hungry. But sometimes overcomes hunger and they frantically absorb any trapped their food in large quantities. Then clogged stomach makes them vomit.
Causes of bulimia are few. Firstly, it is the middle of the living. Sexual abuse, prolonged depression, and the pressure of the culture medium. This usually happens when dancers and athletes. Psychogenic causes of bulimia:
Violation of the family relationships. Development of gluttony is a reaction to a conflict between mother and daughter. Often patients with bulimia start using a huge amount of food when considered rejected and unnecessary when they lack affection and tenderness. Spiritual isolation. For example, change in appetite can develop in a stable relationship breakup, divorce or death of a loved one. Then the food becomes a source of positive emotions and defense mechanism of depression, drug fear.
Social causes of bulimia:
Pretension and high ambitions of parents; insufficient attention to the patient when he was a child; only child in the family; long watching TV constantly snack - chips, crackers, nuts, etc .; laziness and low physical activity; amending the present standard figure.
Nervous bulimia predominantly affects girls and young women. Increased hunger arises, as a rule, once a day and is removed with the adoption of high-calorie food, followed emesis, ie for bulimia nervosa is characterized by the cycle: food-vomiting. The purpose of weight loss induced vomiting, striving for elegance or a desire for relief from obesity. In addition to all the patients using laxatives and diuretics artificial gastric emptying and weight reduction, actively engaged in exercise. But despite all efforts, the body mass neuklonno still increased and the vicious circle feeding - vomiting re-uptake of large quantities of food continues.
Physical signs of bulimia nervosa:
Weight gain; swelling of salivary glands due to vomiting; failure of tooth enamel because of contact with the acidic contents of the stomach; redness of the mouth combined with small petechial hemorrhages; muscular weakness associated with ingestion of diuretic agents and remove salts from the body; attacks of pain in the heart and changes in the electrocardiogram; abdominal pain; attacks? voracious appetite? night; cessation of menstruation, impaired sleep.
Psychological portrait of a patient with bulimia:
Tendency to stockpile; egoisticheski pointless wasteful of valuable products for nutrition; prevalence of depressive mood; hysterical manifestations; reclusiveness; increased rigor to themselves and to others combined with selfishness;