The harm of obesity is more and more widely known, so many obese people have embarked on the road of losing weight, but many people do not take the right method when losing weight, which not only makes their weight rebound quickly, but also causes malnutrition. Not long ago, an anorexic boy went to the hospital for treatment. Because I was fat when I was a child, I tried various ways to lose weight when I grew up. However, due to excessive dieting, he slowly developed symptoms of stomach pain and nausea. He is 1.8 meters tall and weighs only 70 kilograms. When I went to the hospital for medical treatment, I was diagnosed with anorexia.
1. What are the physical manifestations of anorexia?
People with anorexia are prone to edema, lose weight obviously, and are prone to chills. At the same time, due to hormone disorder in the body, hair thinning or excessive body hair is caused.
Not only that, women will also have the phenomenon of menstrual flow reduction or stop, and some will also have discomfort in the upper abdomen and unexplained fatigue.
When these symptoms appear in the body, it is necessary to consider whether you are anorexic.
2. Diagnosis and treatment of anorexia
The diagnosis and treatment of anorexia must depend on the patient's condition. If the condition is serious, you must even be admitted to the hospital for observation and treatment by psychologists, specialists and nutritionists, and then cooperate with behavioral therapy, so that the patient's weight will gradually rise. If the illness is not too serious, it is possible to recover under the guidance of a psychologist. It is worth noting that if anorexia patients are still in the developmental stage and their organs have been damaged, their functions may not return to normal after their condition improves, which will affect their physiological development and growth. Whether the patient can recover must also depend on the patient's willpower. The course of treatment varies from person to person, ranging from several months to several years. The most important thing is to treat as soon as possible, and don't wait until the illness is very serious to see a doctor. It is worth mentioning that many patients are unwilling to admit that they are anorexic in the early stage of illness, and their families ignore the patient's condition because of their busy lives or not eating together often. When problems are discovered, they are often terminally ill.
Anorexia is a mental illness, which mainly occurs in young women in their teens and thirties, but about one tenth of the patients are boys and young men. A recent survey shows that about 10% people have symptoms or tendencies of anorexia and bulimia, while about 3% people are diagnosed with more serious anorexia and bulimia. People of other ages or who need to maintain their weight because of professional needs may also produce.
Being thin can easily lead to various physical diseases.
He is 1.8 meters tall, but only 70 pounds. This situation can easily damage liver function and immunity. Ye Yanbin, deputy chief physician of the Nutrition Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, once said that adequate nutrition is very important for people, because only the body containing high-quality protein and nutrients can guarantee strong immunity. Once these high-quality protein and nutrients are lost, the human body will be easily invaded by viruses and bacteria, and people with strong immunity will easily get sick.
At the same time, the normal operation of the liver also needs the support of nutrients, such as iron, vitamins, protein and other nutrients, which are essential for the daily operation of the liver. If you are thin, it will do harm to your health for a long time.
3. What should I do if I have anorexia?
The correct treatment of anorexia should be comprehensive, with psychotherapy, behavioral therapy and family therapy as the main methods in the early stage, with the aim of eliminating psychosocial factors and preventing the development of the disease. In the later stage, while maintaining the balance of life, water and electrolyte, we should also give health care and beauty according to their mental symptoms.
First, psychotherapy.
Including relieving patients' psychological pressure, having an objective understanding of the environment and themselves, finding an angle to adapt to society and the ability to handle and cope with various life events. In addition, the concept of healthy body, the significance of standard weight, and the objective evaluation of one's physical condition. Understand the knowledge of food and nutrition. For patients with family tension, family members can be invited to do family psychotherapy when necessary.
What should I do if I get anorexia
Second, zinc supplementation therapy
Trace element zinc is essential for human body and participates in the synthesis of many enzymes. Zinc can act on taste and appetite through its zinc-containing protein, thus promoting appetite. Zinc deficiency in human body, especially in growing children, is more obvious. Its clinical manifestations are: growth retardation, loss of appetite, dull or even loss of taste, poor healing of skin wounds, easy infection and so on. Therefore, taking Xinxibao brand zinc-selenium tablets can effectively supplement zinc and treat anorexia nervosa.
Third, psychotherapy.
Antidepressants are widely used in clinic. Etiology believes that the disease may be related to depression, so drugs are usually used to regulate patients' anxiety in clinic.
Fourth, Chinese medicine treatment.
1, food stagnation type: due to long-term diet, food has no taste. The method of promoting digestion and guiding stagnation should be adopted.
2. Damp-trapped spleen type: Because the spleen loses health, it leads to the symptoms of chest tightness and vomiting in the wet trapped body. The method of invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness should be used.
3, spleen and stomach yin deficiency type: due to eating a lot of spicy and hot food, causing yin loss, causing dry mouth and throat, thirst, emaciation and irritability. The method of nourishing yin and stomach should be adopted.
V. Massage Therapy
Push the five meridians and pinch four strokes by routine methods; Kneel for the gods; Soft clouds; Rubbing the abdomen (clockwise for men and counterclockwise for women); Take the abdominal angle; Press Zusanli; Spine acupressure therapy.
What should I do if I get anorexia
Sixth, behavioral therapy.
Behavioral therapy is a psychotherapy technique aimed at relieving or improving patients' symptoms or bad behaviors, which has the characteristics of strong pertinence, simple operation, short course of treatment and quick effect. For anorexia, we can use token therapy and behavior modeling to alleviate patients' boredom with food and gradually improve symptoms.