Eating Disorders
Eating disorders in adolescents: Principles of diagnosis and treatment
Eating disorders are complex illnesses that affect adolescents with increasing frequency. They rank as the third most common…
What Medications May Help My Child?
Whether your child may benefit from psychiatric medication warrants close evaluation by her primary care physician or a…
Discussing Bone Health
Healthy puberty brings about a growth spurt. Young people who develop anorexia before reaching their genetically programmed adult…
Medical Dangers of Eating Disorders
The number-one priority of your child’s treatment team will be to help her reach and maintain medical safety.…
Medical Care and Monitoring
Will she get better? How? Those questions weighed heavily on Lucinda’s mind when she first came to talk…
Eating Disorders Run in Families: Yvette’s Story
Yvette, 47, an acclaimed long-distance runner, relates her eating disorder, which struck as a college senior and lasted…
Is She a Future Olympiad?
The ability of a serious athlete to push herself to the limit can be a unique gift. Over…
Does She See and Believe That She Is Special?
Conscientiousness and a drive to excel are positive qualities through which a person can make great strides. But…
Coping with Cliques
Adolescent girls tend to form exclusive groups called cliques, complete with leaders and specific codes of behavior regarding…
Sleep-related eating disorder Pharmacotherapy
Sleep-related eating disorder (SRED) is treatable and a reversible cause of obesity. The choice of medication depends on:…
Sleep-related eating disorder - Chain of consequences
Repeated nocturnal binge eating episodes can have multiple adverse health effects. Patients often wake up with painful abdominal…
Curbing nocturnal binges in sleep-related eating disorder
Sleepwalking-like behavior is a frequently undiagnosed cause of patients’ obesity.
Ms. G, age 39, has a…
Sleeping and eating: Closely linked activities
Because hormones that regulate appetite, food intake, and body weight also play a role in sleep regulation, patients…
PICA & Ruminaton Disorder of Infancy
Pica is the persistent (more than 1 month) ingestion of nonnutritive substances inappropriate for developmental age and unacceptable…
Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders
- Anorexia Nevrosa
Anorexia nervosa primarily a genetic disease
• Eating Disorders • Mar 06 06Genetic factors account for 56 percent of the risk of developing anorexia nervosa, according to a report in…
Early response to anti-bulimia drug a good sign
Women with the binge and purge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, who respond to treatment with the antidepressant desipramine…
Therapy curbs osteoporosis in women with anorexia
Women with anorexia are prone to develop brittle bones, but medical treatment either with the bone-strengthening drug etidronate…
Birth complications linked to eating disorders
Children of women who experience birth difficulties seem to be more likely to develop of anorexia and bulimia…
Perinatal Complications Linked to Eating Disorders
Certain complications during and immediately after birth are associated with the development of the eating disorders anorexia nervosa…
Formerly anorexic girls can reach normal height
Young girls with eating disorders whose growth is stunted by undernutrition may achieve catch-up growth in height if…
Simple questionnaire may predict eating disorders
Asking the right questions may allow doctors to tell whether a young woman is heading for an eating…
Eating Disorders Medical Complications
Eating disorders, when persistent, can have serious medical consequences. The lifetime mortality from anorexia nervosa is approximately 10%;…
Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is a severe eating disorder characterized by low body weight. Anorexia nervosa is diagnosed when a…
Bulimia Nervosa
Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating with the maintenance of body weight.
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