Hello! I have been a doctor for 21 years. My name is Georgy Olegovich Sapego. In this article I will talk about the harm of cleaning.
The other day I was asked if it is possible to cleanse your stomach every day without much harm to your health. No. Will not work. There will be a whole list of problems, including swollen cheeks and rectal prolapse.
I will explain. Repeated vomiting occurs from eating disorders or when trying to "clean".
Trying to clean up is just foolishness. You can forget about her.
An eating disorder with regular vomiting is bulimia. The point of bulimia is that a person eats a lot of food in a short period of time, and then causes vomiting. There are three key points about bulimia:
- a person eats noticeably more than people around him in the same period of time;
- a person eats and cannot stop, that is, he does not control himself;
- the person then realizes that he is getting fat, and therefore regularly induces vomiting.
In fact, in addition to vomiting, people with bulimia try to follow a diet, exercise a lot, lose weight with diuretics, laxatives and similar garbage.
You and I are currently concerned about vomiting. So, regular vomiting causes a whole bunch of interesting diseases and conditions.
Cheeks
In the first place are swollen cheeks. They swell a few days after the sick person has taken up his mind and stopped sticking two fingers down his throat.
The fact is that the salivary glands get used to secrete a lot of saliva during vomiting. Everyone has ever felt sick. Remember how you drool when you feel sick? They flow like a stream. And even if you just stick two fingers in the throat, then after such vomiting, drool also flows.
Then, if there is no vomiting on schedule, then the salivary glands swell with saliva and hurt. This will gradually pass over a few months.
Teeth
Vomit contains acid that eats away at the teeth. Sometimes this is even noticeable from the outside.
Laryngopharyngeal reflux
Along with the acid from the stomach, digestive enzymes enter the larynx, which slightly digest the vocal cords. The voice will become hoarse and a lump in the throat will feel. This will then bother you for several months.
Rectal prolapse
Unexpected, right? Let's figure it out. There are two mechanisms that can overlap and aggravate each other.
First, straining during vomiting is reflex. When people pump their abs with physical exercises, they may stop at some point. But vomiting cannot be stopped. She herself controls the muscles, makes them work at maximum, literally tears the esophagus and can cause rectal prolapse.
Secondly, people are cleansed not only with vomit, but also with laxatives. From laxatives it happens cathartic colonic syndrome. We discussed it with you in the article on cleaning. This is constipation in which laxatives no longer help. You have to push very hard. This also causes rectal prolapse.
Edema
If the person has been vomiting three or more times a week, then after the termination of the cleansing, swelling may appear. The meaning of edema is in hormonal disruption. The body has been trying to retain water for a long time, and if vomiting stops for a while, then it continues to retain water. Sometimes the swelling persists for several weeks.
Arms
When people regularly put two fingers in their mouths, they develop abrasions and swelling on their knuckles. Vomiting is reflex, and the hand simply bites at the very beginning. This is such a characteristic feature. A woman with bulimia looks like she was hitting someone. Her knuckles were torn off and swollen.
Have you presented a characteristic appearance? The knuckles are knocked down, the cheeks are swollen, the teeth are damaged, and there may be hemorrhages in the eyes from straining. It looks bad.
Have you tried cleaning yourself?
