Symptoms for Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa is a major eating disorder and it affects mainly teenagers than adult persons with an absurd set of mind where the patient himself /herself indulges on major avoidance of appetite in order to be slim and trim in his/her figure. Again by statistics, females are more prone to be affected by anorexia nervosa than males. The problem symptoms of anorexia nervosa differ from one person to another in its intensity; however, the general symptoms for this deadly disorder are described here by outline details.

In Anorexia nervosa the patient losses all his/her desire to eat in fear of gaining weight, and due to minimum intake of food the patient suffers from dramatic loss of weight which he/she considers as the positive point of his/her starving. The patients of anorexia disorder have a general tendency for complain for being overweight and being obsessive with over-exercise schedule.

The patients of anorexia always suffer from obsession about calorie consumption and fat-contents of foods; self-starvation, stringent food restriction, frequent and obsessive use of diet pills, frequent use of laxatives, preference of enemas and ipecac syrup for obsessive body cleansing are the symptoms for the anorexia eating disorders.

The patients of this eating disorder disease avoid, by all means, eating out or for attending parties, and stop eating all kinds of desserts or chocolate kind of foods because of panic about high calorie intake of the food items.

These patients are prone to taste for various diet plans; however, they cannot stick to any particular plan due to their loss of self-confidence as well as for weak determination level. Most of anorexia patients are found in maintaining food diary not for any healthy purpose but for imposing stringent diet restriction on food intake. These are some effects of anorexia nervosa. <!– /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:”"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –>

Gross hair loss, continuous dizziness, paleness on skin tone, low self-confidence, irrational, suffering from frequent mood swing, low blood pressure, incontinence or acute constipation, and abrupt mood swing are the personality traits of the anorexia suffering patients. In case of adult people, loss of sexual desire, unconditional fatigue, poor sleeping habits etc. are other general symptoms for the anorexia patients.