Symptoms of Anorexia

General information about symptoms of Anorexia: The symptom information on this page attempts to provide a list of some possible symptoms of Anorexia. This symptom information has been gathered from various sources, may not be fully accurate, and may not be the full list of symptoms of Anorexia. Furthermore, symptoms of Anorexia may vary on an individual basis for each patient. Only your doctor can provide adequate diagnosis of symptoms and whether they are indeed symptoms of Anorexia.

List of symptoms of Anorexia: The list of symptoms mentioned in various sources for Anorexia includes:

• Loss of appetite
• Weight loss
• Obession with food and eating
• Abusing other weight control methods
• Menstrual abnormalities
• Certain physical symptoms
• See also symptoms of Anorexia Nervosa for more detail

Symptoms of Anorexia: Anorexia is identified in part by refusal to eat, an intense desire to be thin, repeated dieting attempts, and excessive weight loss. To maintain an abnormally low weight, people with anorexia may diet, fast, or over exercise. They often engage in behaviors such as self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas. People with anorexia believe that they are overweight even when they are extremely thin. Often, the beginning of illness will occur after a stressful life event such as initiation of puberty or moving out of the parents' home. ¹

A Person with Anorexia may…

• Eat only 'safe' foods, usually those low in calories and fat
• Have odd rituals, such as cutting food into small pieces
• Spend more time playing with food than eating it
• Cook meals for others without eating · Engage in compulsive exercising
• Dress in layers to hide weight loss
• Spend less time with family and friends, become more isolated, withdrawn, and secretive

Symptoms of anorexia nervosa include:

• Resistance to maintaining body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height

• Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight

• Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight

• Infrequent or absent menstrual periods (in females who have reached puberty)

More symptoms of Anorexia: In addition to the above information, to get a full picture of the possible symptoms of this condition and its related conditions, it may be necessary to examine symptoms that may be caused by complications of Anorexia, underlying causes of Anorexia, associated conditions for Anorexia, risk factors for Anorexia, or other related conditions.

Medical articles on symptoms: These general reference articles may be of interest:

• Symptoms of the Silent Killer Diseases
• Symptoms and Medical Malpractice

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