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Title: Bulimia Nervosa


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Bulimia Nervosa
  • By
  • Mimi Duong

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What are Eating Disorders?
  • Disturbances in eating behavior
  • Factors
  • Mood and personality disorders
  • Family pressures
  • Genetic predispositions
  • Food culture
  • Societal obsession of thinness

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Types of Eating Disorders
  • Four types
  • Anorexia Nervosa
  • BED (Binge Eating Disorder)
  • EDNOS (Eating disorders not otherwise specified)
  • And finally

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Bulimia Nervosa
  • Diagnostic Features
  • Binge eating
  • Abnormal amounts of food consumption
  • Discrete time period
  • Lack of control
  • Inappropriate compensation by purging
  • Vomiting
  • Enemas
  • Laxatives
  • Diuretics
  • Diet pills

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Diagnostic Criteria
  • Twice a week for 3 months.

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Subtypes of BN
  • Purging type
  • Regular engagement
  • Non purging type
  • Fasting
  • Excessive exercise

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Co-morbid Disorders
  • Mood Disorders
  • Dysthymic Disorder
  • Major Depressive Disorder
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • Panic disorder
  • Phobias
  • Personality Disorders
  • Borderline Personality Disorders
  • Substance Abuse
  • Somatoform Disorders
  • Body Dysmorphic Disorder

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Medical Conditions associated with BN
  • Dental problems
  • Fluid loss
  • Enlarged parotid glands
  • Calluses or scars on hand
  • Cardiac and skeletal myopathies
  • Amenorrhea (menstrual irregularity)
  • Dependence on laxatives
  • Rectal prolapse
  • Problems swallowing and ruptured esophagus
  • Acute stomach distress

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Demographic Data
  • Occurs in most industrialized countries
  • United States, Canada, Europe, to name a few.
  • Mostly females
  • Particularly middle class white women
  • Male bodybuilders
  • Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual (GLB) orientation
  • possible risk for developing eating disorders

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Prevalence and Incidence
  • 1-3 among women
  • About the same in every industrialized country
  • Few studies performed on different cultures
  • Subclinical BN is much higher in adolescent girls
    than that of full syndrome BN.
  • 0.1 among men ages 15-65
  • 12 per 100,000

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The Course of BN
  • Late adolescence
  • Persists for many years
  • Chronic or intermittent
  • Periods of remission and alternating recurrences
  • Long-term follow up
  • Symptoms diminish

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Differential Diagnosis
  • Anorexia, Binge-eating/Purging Type
  • Kleine-Levin syndrome
  • Major depressive disorder
  • Borderline personality disorder

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Etiology of BN
  • Causes are uncertain
  • Possible Factors
  • Adolescence
  • Family influences and upbringing
  • Problems surrounding birth
  • Genetics
  • Cultural pressures and cultural aesthetics of
    being thin
  • Hormonal abnormalities

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Treatment of BN
  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
  • Interpersonal Therapy
  • Family Therapy
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