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Bulimia Nervosa



Table of Contents

1. The differences between Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa

2. Overall Summery of Bulimia Nervosa

3. Social and Anthropological effects

4. How to tell if someone has bulimia

5. Video on Bulimia

6. Some celebrities who have it

7. The treatments for Bulimia Nervosa

8. Conclusion/Bibliography



Differences Between

Anorexia and Bulimia

Anorexia nervosa: is an eating disorder characterized

by refusal to maintain a healthy body weight and an

obsessive fear of gaining weight, often coupled with adistorted self image

Bulimia nervosa is

an eating disordercharacterized by

restraining of food

intake for a period

of time followed by

an over intake orbinging period that

results in feelings of

guilt and low self-

esteem



Overall Summary of Bulimia

�Bulimia Nervosa is a eating disorder that involves a

period of binge eating, which produces feelings of guilt in

a person, followed by a purging of the food, usually

through vomiting.

�This can happen to anyone around the age of 18

and is 9x more likely for females to get Bulimia Nervosa

than for males due to the media portrayals of women.

History of Bulimia

What is Bulimia Nervosa

�Bulimia was originally taken from the Latin word blmia

which in the Greek language stands for ravenous hunger

which would be the combinding of the two words

meaning (Ox) and meaning(hunger)

�The first person however to understand and

translate it into Bulimia Nervosa was British

psych

iatristGerald Russell in 1979.

Signs and Symptoms of

Bulimia Nervosa

There are many symptom and signs for Bulimia

Nervosa but the most deadly are ElectrolyteImbalance, which may cause cardiac arrhythmia

(un-normal amount of electrolytes in the heart),

cardiac arrest or even death in some cases.

Others could be Chronic gastric reflux(acid reflex),

Infertility, Constipation, Severe dental erosion (acid

reflex), Esophagitis (swelling esophagus) and

Hypokalemia (lack of water due to vomiting) just to

name a few.



Bulimias effects on Sociology

Sociological effects on Small Scale Statisticsaround the world

Australia 2008 1,943 adolescents (ages 1517) 1.0% male 6.4% female

Portugal 2006 2,028 high school students 0.3% female

Brazil 2004 1,807 students (ages 719) 0.8% male 1.3% female

Spain 2004 2,509 female adolescents (ages 1322) 1.4% female

Hungary 2003 580 Budapest residents 0.4% male 3.6% female

Australia 1998 4,200 high school students 0.3% combined

USA 1996 1,152 college students 0.2% male 1.3% female

Norway 1995 19,067 psychiatric patients 0.7% male 7.3% female

Canada 1995 8,116 (random sample) 0.1% male 1.1% female

Japan 1995 2,597 high school students 0.7% male 1.9% female

USA 1992 799 college students 0.4% male 5.1% female



How to tell if someone has

Bulimia Nervosa

Behaviour AspectsOverall Appearance

�Shown as extreme mood swings from timeto time being abnormal emotions of rage

or depressant.

�Sometimes mentioning that they are fat even

when they might not be in any way.

�Sometimes needing additional attention due to

being afraid of being left out because they think

are fat .

�Being worried about eating fatty or high calorie

foods constantly saying they will be fat if they eat

one bite.

�Overall thinking that most or all people look

better than them and they are a disgrace to

themselves.

�Very or quite skinny or the chest

and stomach.

�Sometimes may have swollen or odd

shaped esophagus due to acid reflex.

�Weight loss at a rapid recession if patient

has just begun there own Bulimia Nervosa.

�Sometimes discoloured teeth due to the acid

reflex, however is quite rare with people or

Bulimia Nervosa.

�overall slim or extremely skinny with

� little muscle or fat at all if there is any



Video on Bulimia Nervosa and the basic social effects

http://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=SSlGqGnOARE



Celebrities with Bulimia

Nervosa

� Princess Diana

�Jane Fonda

� Joan Rivers

� Mary Kate Olson

� Britney Spears

� Nicole Richie

� Barbara Niven

� Paris Hilton

Just to name a few



Treatments/Rehabilitation

Pharmacological Psychotherapy

Pharmacological treatments

states that bulimia nervosa is

a state of addictiveness where

the person often overdoses on

anti-depressants, and laxatives

to help them feel better.

The pharmacological approach is

to prescribe some drugs to

patient. A common drug is anti-

depressants, which works

because bulimia is connected to

depression. Anti-seizuremedicines have also been shown

to work. A group of drugs called

opiate antagonists , which

usually stops craving for

gambling has worked for Bulimia

also.

The more generally used to treat

Bulimia Nervosa would be

Psychotherapy. The way that

Psychotherapy would work for

people who have Bulimia Nervosa

would be to telling/teaching the

patient what foods to eat and

what foods can basically hurt your

weight and what foods can

actually help them.

Some doctors might use the

cognitive therapy which isthinking positive and staying

positive which also showed

improved results amongst people

with the disorder.



People have to be skinny in order to be bulimic.

-Actually, studies have shown that some bulimic

people are above normal weight. After a while, constantvomiting slows the metabolism so that weight loss is

difficult.

People vomit all the time. Bulimics are in no serious

danger.-Fluids and essential electrolytes are lost through

vomiting. This can lead to dehydration. Loss of sodium,

potassium and chlorides can cause muscle spasms, coma

and death.

If someone does not vomit, they are not bulimic.

- Some bulimic sufferers never vomit at all, but

use a different method of purging. This can include use of

laxatives, over-extensive exercise and drug abuse.

Common Misconceptions



Conclusion

Now you know that having Bulimia is no

laughing matter and has nothing to dowith the person being fat or only of the

female gender female gender

So next time be respectful of th

e wh

atthe person is going through and help

them out!

By Andrew and Cameron



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