Clinical psychologist
Topics: food / nutrition, children and adolescents, psychological aspects
Date: April 1, 2016
Eating disorders have increased very rapidly in recent years.Every year there are two thousand five hundred new cases of anorexia and six thousand bulimia in Spain.These disorders especially affect young women and tend to be diseases that are chronicled over time, with long treatments, leading to great wear and, consequently, personal and family suffering.
Some of the causes that cause this type of disorder can be;On the one hand, advertising pressure: being thin is synonymous with social success and beauty while overweight is synonymous with neglect, abandonment and lack of will.On the other hand, the change in the role of women in society: women are required physical -looking requirements to access the work world and many of their professions are related to image and contact with the public.
The two main eating disorders are anorexia and nervous bulimia.In both disorders there is an obsession with the bodily figure and the weight that is attempt to control through various practices such as diet, excessive exercise, vomiting, etc.
Anorexia is characterized by food restriction to achieve and maintain a thin body, despite having a body weight below the healthy.On the other hand, bulimia is characterized by the presence of recurring bingeetc
How do eating disorders affect people with diabetes?
In the case of young women with type 1 diabetes, the risk of developing feeding disorders is twice as in the general population without diabetes.Because?Diabetes itself conditions special attention to body image itself and food aspects.Perhaps this hyperfocalization towards itself conditions or makes the development of these disorders more feasible.
When people with diabetes suffer from eating disorder, there is a very high gravity situation, since they usually occur maintained hyperglycemia or large glycèmic oscillations (hyperglycemia to hypoglycemia or vice versa) with the consequent consequences for health in the medium or long term thatThis involves how are ocular, renal complications, and peripheral nervous system, typical of sustained bad metabolic control.
It is common for young women with this type of disorders, to manipulate their insulin doses, they even stop putting it in order to lose weight, since causing ketoacidosis in the body, a rapid weight drop occurs.In spite of the seriousness of the situation, it must be taken into account that in the adolescence stage there is a tendency to think about the today's term- minimizing how negative that may happen in the medium or long term.
Some manifestations that could put us on track to suspect the existence of an eating disorder are:
Avoid social situations that occur around the table
Very high glucosylated hemoglobin values
Changes in humor (irritability)
Apparent weight loss without justification
Increased physical activity
Denial of the food problem
Increase in family tension situations
Family and friends isolation
Frequent episodes of hypoglycemia and/or hyperglycemia
Amounts of Alime
