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The bulimia is an illness of diverse causes (psychological and somatic), which it produces desarreglos in the food ingestion with compulsion periods to eat with others of excessive diets, associated with vomiting and the ingestion of diverse medicines (laxatives and diuretics).
It is an illness that it appears more in the women that in men, which appears in the adolescence and lasts many years.
The bulimia symptoms appellants always include episodes of:
Anxiety or compulsion to eat
Vomiting
I abuse laxative medicines and diuretics
Pursuit of diverse diets
Dehydration
Menstrual alterations
I increase and grown thin sudden
Increase of dental caries
The bulimia treatment generally consists in:
Individual psychotherapy, of group and/or relative. Nutritional orientation.
It is necessary to establish a plan to continue under supervision of a therapist, this one will establish a few bases for the good end of the treatment:
1. Voluntariedad in taking a treatment rule
2. It disciplines in the diets, and with the hospitalizations if they are necessary
3. Weight control in the projected targets
4. To do a normal social life
5. Regularity in the individual or familiar consultations
6. Medical control
7. To strengthen the personality.
8. Confidence in the family circle
9. Confidence with his therapist
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