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 OTHER NAMES
- Polifagia,
- Bulimia,
- Hiperfagia,
- Excessive famine.
DEFINITION
Being hungry is a normal desire to eat food when need is had. When this desire is increased ó uncontrolled (he eats up at any time and even after having eaten appropriately) one speaks about polifagia, hiperfagia or appetite increase.
REMARKS
There are pictures of increase of persistent appetite or in cycles of more or less appetite, as direct side effect there can be increase or not of the corporal weight.
CAUSES OF THE INCREASE
Two big groups of possibilities of the increase of appetite are the psychological ones and the hormonal alterations.
- Anxiety
- Bulimia (I frequented in women between 17 and 30 years)
- Diabetes mellitus
- Diabetes of the pregnancy
- Illness of Serious
- Hipertiroidismo
- Hypoglycemia
- Medicines (corticoids, antiallergic, antidepressing, etc...)
- Premenstrual syndrome
CARE AND TREATMENT
The possible causes must be studied to put the suitable treatment. For it if it is taking medicines the need must consult with his doctor them to keep on taking or to lower the dose of the same ones.
In pictures of anxiety or depression it will have to consult with his doctor and put itself in treatment.
If psychological causes do not exist or for the capture of medicines it will have to do a study of the metabolism. In this case his doctor in addition to gathering a record of the process and physical examination will request a few complementary tests:
- Routine blood test and urine
- You try thyroid function
- More concrete others depending every case
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