Eating Disorders student usually starts with the beginning of the academic year after the summer holidays. What causes psychogenic vomiting? And how to behave if a child has soured relationship with food?
When children from 10 to 15 years say that suddenly after the summer vacations are going to sit on dietDo not laugh at them, and do not dismiss. This desire can be the first symptom of a serious disease. No, immediately run to the doctor and warmly dissuade a son or daughter is not necessary. But think about why the child suddenly ceased to arrange own appearance, definitely worth it.
Eating disorders in school
Eating disorders - anorexia, bulimia and psychogenic vomiting - even made to the International Classification of Diseases. Other oddities in the relationship with food to the disease and are not officially called softer - eating disorders. And almost all of them begin with the phrase teacher in the garden "So far, so do not eat, because you will not leave the table" or his mother's cries "You have the same size as me!". Diet - this is the second stage.
standards of beauty dictate fashion and classmates
Anorexia more than any other eating disorders associated with psychological abnormalities. In the course, blame rigid standards of beauty: the girls (more often than boys) dream to become as slim as a model or instagram, beauty, and refuse to eat. Yes so strongly that bring themselves to exhaustion: they start falling hair and teeth, stop getting their periods, because of lowered immunity develops abrasions. But all this young dreamer does not stop - they stubbornly continue to starve.
- Yet just yesterday it was believed that anorexia exclusively socio-psychological conditions.
- Scientists confidently claim that this anorexia is genetic, and the pursuit of fashion here is not the decisive factor.
- Moreover, people who are inclined to corpulence, not usually prone to anorexia. But the lucky ones with a fast metabolism (those who can eat how much you want and not get fat), likely to be born with the gene of anorexia. Therefore, special attention should be slim by nature subtle daughter moms.
- And it is important to understand that at the time build-up you have very little: anorexia hudyshki reach fatal features very quickly. They, unlike the plump girls, there is no stock of nutrients and fats that can survive as long as psychologists and psychiatrists will do its job - warn the patient.
School and Stress: when the sick child and how to handle / istockphoto.com
Why do students there bulimia
But bulimia - just a disease of those genetics, despite all attempts, did not allow to become thin. It is known that any rigid diet, sooner or later leads to failure. And once it happens, dieters begin to treat food as something shameful: eating in secret at night, taking laxatives and diuretics, and then to get rid of the food eaten, cause at vomiting.
- The earlier a child with these symptoms will get to the psychologist, the higher the chance to stop the progression of the disease. There are experts who specializes in the problems of eating disorders, but in the early stages better just find a good teen or family psychologist. In most cases, it turns out that the basis of this behavior lie rejection, loneliness and fear of circumstances.
- Doctors also diagnosed with bulimia, binge eating if attacks followed by vomiting or taking laxatives are repeated at least 1 time per week for 3 months. In this case, the assistance of a psychologist may not be enough, need the support of a psychiatrist, ie, tablets. They are necessary because, among other things, a girl suffering from bulimia are prone to suicide. No, suicidal tendencies - not the result of eating too much, but the reason they have a common - sense of uselessness and worthlessness.
- Almost all patients with bulimia require observation of the endocrinologist and a gastroenterologist: frequent violent vomiting leads to chronic inflammation of the esophagus.
- Girls also need a gynecologist: a disease provoked by menstrual irregularities without proper treatment can lead to infertility.
If the child is under pressure
With another disorder - psychogenic vomiting - may face even a preschooler. Usually it overtakes those who have failed to adapt to the kindergarten. A typical situation: the child is under stress, and its cause is. The result - vomiting, - says our expert. - The school stressful situations more and vomiting (or nausea) becomes a reflex, which remains with man forever, and works with any great excitement. Equipped to deal with this is impossible - need to work with a psychologist.
Proper nutrition - it's not always correct for the child
Ortoreksiya (or HLS, driven to fanaticism) - not yet diagnosed, but only a behavioral feature. In this area, the boys and girls approximate parity, because the trend in healthy life coincided with the trend in gender equality. Girls want to be strong, the boys are not ashamed to take care of appearance - so all involved in sports and eating healthy foods.
- It would seem, what's wrong? The global food industry contributes to the fact that the fledgling teenage minds are fixed on some superidea: sugar-free, gluten-free, GMO-free, cholesterol-free, or, on the contrary, only cholesterol, organic, keto, vegan products.
- Young hipsters do not refuse from food, but on the contrary - are eating pointedly (remember the photos and videos in social networks).
- Ortoreksiya - a variation of bulimia, a fixation is not on quantity but on the quality of food. Ortorektiki ashamed and try to be cleansed from the "wrong food" with enemas, laxatives, exercise. God forbid find out after the fact that you do not eat a vegan bar and vegetarian!
In general, do not forget that any oddities in the case of adolescents with food - this is a signal that it is time to thoroughly establish communication and mutual understanding. "We are what we eat" - a bad setting for a child. We - it's just us.
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