What is Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric disorder characterized by obsessive dieting and intense fear of being overweight. Anorexia nervosa is a serious eating disorder occurs most often in teenage girls and young women. People with anorexia nervosa are obsessed with being thin and have a distorted perception of their bodies. They believe that they are fat and avoid eating. They exercise excessively in order to burn extra calories, they may even induce vomiting in order to compensate over eating.
Causes of anorexia nervosa
The exact cause of anorexia nervosa is unknown. There may be so many factors associated with anorexia nervosa like hormones, genes, and social factors.
There are few risk factors which may involve:
- Over consciousness regarding weight and body shape
- Social and family expectations and pressure about health and beauty
- Child suffering from anxiety disorder
- Disaffection form body image
- People who try to be perfectionist
- People who have family history of eating disorders
- Who are not happy with relations, with low self esteem
Symptoms of anorexia nervosa
- No desire to eat anything
- Excessive exercising
- No desire or refuse to have food in front of others
- Immediate vomiting after eating
- Distorted body image
- Hair loss
- Depression
- Dryness of skin
- Muscular weakness
- Easy fatigue
- Malaise
- Low blood pressure
- Hypoglycemia
- Brittle nails
- Confusion of thoughts
- Low self esteem
- No inclination to mental or physical work
- Slower respiratory rate
- Dryness of mouth
Homeopathy Treatment
Homeopathic medicines are known to have deep effect on human economy and have been found effective in various psychological and developmental disorders. The focus of homeopathy is not to treat the isolated symptoms of Anorexia but to treat the child as a whole. Not only the symptoms of Anorexia but also the general physical and mental constitution of the patient, past medical history, medical history of parents, information about pregnancy and vaccination – all are used to find the probable cause in a given case and based on the final analysis a remedy is chosen for a patient.
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