Health Consequences

Eating disorder The second instance is governed by case law, and states that doctors can force-feed patients if they have become mentally incapacitated and they believe it is in their best interests and will save their life.

The short-term effects of an eating disorder can include: Rapid weight loss in the case of anorexia. Rapid weight gain in the case of compulsive overeating. Dizziness, confusion or other alterations of the subject’s mental state.

• Fatigue and fainting.
• Slow heart rate.
• Low blood pressure.
• Heart failure.
• Osteoporosis (reduction of bone density)
• Muscle loss and weakness.
• Dehydration.
• Kidney failure.

Girls may also admire the way anorexia delays the development of hips and breasts, physical features they associate with being fat. Girls whose anorexia predates menarche (the beginning of menstruation), on the other hand, will usually not realize that their starvation has delayed its onset.

In reality, people of all genders and ages with anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders commonly experience hair loss, including hair thinning and areas of balding.

Conclusion: Catch-up growth is possible in girls with eating disorders of premenarcheal onset. Weight gain is necessary for catch-up growth and must start before the ability to grow is lost with age. Once weight gain starts, the full effect on growth in stature takes several years to evolve.

Girls with anorexia nervosa can have stunted growth and may not reach their full height potential, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

When an eating disorder starts in early years, it can alter the hormones involved in puberty and growth. Puberty may be delayed and bones may fail to grow, leading to stunted growth and brittle bones (osteoporosis) later in life.