User:Mksearcy/Anorexia nervosa

Behavioral symptoms[edit]

 * Food restrictions despite being underweight or at a healthy weight.
 * Food rituals, such as cutting food into tiny pieces, refusing to eat around others, and hiding or discarding of food.


 * Purging (only in the anorexia purging subtype) with laxatives, diet pills, ipecac syrup, or diuretics to flush food out of their system after eating or engage in self-induced vomiting.

anorexia purging is a subtype of anorexia, where in the person severely restricts most of the time but has reoccurring episodes of binge eating. After bingeing they engage in purging behaviors. This is different from bulimia nervosa.



Behavioral symptoms

 * Food / energy restrictions despite being underweight or at a healthy weight.
 * Food rituals, such as cutting food into tiny pieces, refusing to eat around others, and hiding or discarding of food.
 * Purging (only in the anorexia purging subtype) with laxatives, diet pills, ipecac syrup, diuretics or enemas to flush food out of their system after eating or engage in self-induced vomiting.
 * anorexia purging is a subtype of anorexia, where in the person severely restricts most of the time but has reoccurring episodes of binge eating. After bingeing they engage in purging behaviors. This is different from bulimia nervosa. 
 * Excessive exercise, including micro-exercising, for example making small persistent movements of fingers or toes.
 * Self harming or self-loathing.
 * Solitude: may avoid friends and family and become more withdrawn and secretive.

Instructor Edit: Whenever you make changes, you will want to put that in distinctive font.

Physical symptoms

 * A low body mass index for one's age and height
 * Amenorrhea, a symptom that occurs after prolonged weight loss, causing menstruation change drastically or to stop all together
 * Dry hair and skin, as well as hair thinning
 * Fear of even the slightest weight gain; taking all precautionary measures to avoid weight gain or becoming "overweight"
 * Rapid, continuous weight loss
 * Lanugo: soft, fine hair growing over the face and body
 * Bradycardia or tachycardia.
 * Chronic fatigue
 * Orange discoloration of the skin, particularly the feet (Carotenosis)
 * Infertility
 * Halitosis (from vomiting or starvation-induced ketosis)
 * Hypotension or orthostatic hypotension
 * Having severe muscle tension, aches and pains
 * Insomnia
 * Abdominal

Individuals with anorexia nervosa commonly see themselves as overweight, although they are in fact underweight.

Individuals with anorexia nervosa have a fear of being overweight or being seen as such, although they are in fact underweight.

I made a few small edits to start with that my group recommended. I added a few distinctions in to make the physical symptoms and behavioral symptoms more well rounded. This is only the start of my edits.