TRANSTORN BULIMIA OR ALTERATION OF FOOD
Eating disorders are presented when a person does not receive the caloric intake that his body requires to function according to his age, height, rhythm of life, etc. The main eating disorders are anorexia, bulimia and compulsion to eat. Anorexia is characterized by a large reduction in food intake indicated for the individual in relation to their age, height and vital needs. This decrease does not respond to a lack of appetite, but to a resistance to eating, motivated by excessive concern for not gaining weight or reducing it.
In bulimia, food consumption is done in the form of binge, during which a large amount of food is ingested with the feeling of control loss. They are episodes of voracity that are followed by a strong feeling of guilt, so that inappropriate compensatory measures such as vomiting self-induction, abusive consumption of laxatives, diuretics or enemas, excessive exercise and prolonged fasting are used.
Bulimia is defined as a disorder or alteration of feeding characterized by a cycle that begins in a greater consumption of food quantities and the provocation of vomit or the strong use of laxatives and diuretics to reduce weight. In addition, they perform episodes of strict diets, fasting and excessive exercise being constant being concerned about their figure and body weight, although their weight loss is moderate or zero.
Bulimia appeared in the Roman times through the great parties that involved compulsive intake for entire days, where it was almost mandatory to cause vomit to continue their banquets. Claudia Octavia, Nero’s first woman, died of a disease similar to anorexia. That issue was described by Galen as the ‘Kinos Orexia’ or ‘Canine Hunger’, caused from an abnormal mood.
But the concept of food pathologies was more precise from the natural development of the study on these cases and for the evolution of science. With the passage of time, various specialists made a modern reading of these alterations and sought the connection between the way they had to relate to the body, with the foods they consumed, the psychic components and the effects produced by the environment, initiallyfamiliar, but also in the extended environment.
It can be caused by emotional clashes, generally the family’s family or social environment influence very importantly. Below are the elements that most impact on eating disorder:
- Gender: where 95% of patients suffering from anorexia nervosa and Bulimia are women, most cases in men (5%) are associated with homosexual tendencies.
- Age: Anorexia nervosa usually occurs in 90-95% of affected people are women and age is usually between the ages of 12 and 25, and is more frequent between 12 and 17.
- Predisposing personality: In anorexia nervosa, patients are characterized by being obsessive, dependent and obedient, they have personality features, neuropsychological vulnerability, influence of society, strange social interactions and perceived social pressure. While patients suffering from bulimia are generally conflicting, impulsive and little tolerant of pressures.
- Family environment: in general the families of patients with anorexia are rigid, strict and little tolerant of changes. The patient’s family with bulimia is generally conflictive;In addition, there may be a history of alcoholism, drug addiction and obesity.
- Socioeconomic environment: currently the presence of anorexia and bulimia in people is not limited to those who belong to middle or high sectors of society. The levels of these food disorders are very similar and even superior in the low middle class, it is possible that at present the social barriers that kept life patterns, cultural models (such as those associated with thinness) are no longer delimited inthe high sectors of the population. Moreover, when talking about a teenage population. It is necessary to remember the significant impact that the media and the Internet have at almost all socioeconomic levels (except that of extreme poverty). The young women, regardless of their socioeconomic level, have assimilated these patterns.
- Environmental and cultural factors: the mediate circle between anorexia and bulimia are the media, which become factors for the appearance of these behaviors, since they teach the "must be" in bodily terms. On this, it is affirmed that although young people enshrine as the objective of advertising and as a risk population, not all who have had a lot of contact with magazines, television programs, radio, fashion etc., They are going to develop TCA, because other personal, family, social demands and friendships are combined to this. The sociocultural factors are supported in the social and group pressures generated in the social environment, around work, the study, the environment of the friendship groups, with respect to the body and being a woman within a society that exalts and values the thinness. Individuals think and build their body according to the knowledge they acquire from culture, that is, as they come into contact with the different socialization groups, they learn not only to know their own body but to domesticate and mold it to gain a space within theSocial land.
In conclusion, lack of food or prolonged fasting can cause serious consequences between which there are more and less apparent, the first being the loss of weight, sometimes being presented a protéic-energy malnutrition having a sickly appearance, it can also have a pulseSlow, dental decay, bad breath, brittle nails, hair loss, constipation, amenorrhea, excessive fatigue, sleep disorders, alterations in circulating hormonal levels, also the person becomes reserved, they are always on the defensive, it shows a deep concernFor food, since in most cases it is not stopped by lack of appetite but to reduce weight. His obsession with exercise increases and fatigue is completely denied, they also become individualistic, this attitude can lead to a break in friendships and affective isolation being able to affect the emotional nervous system.
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