The first stage of the syndrome - the conviction ...

One of these diseases is anorexia nervosa - loss of appetite. What are the reasons contribute to the emergence of this disease and how to prevent? These are the questions we asked to respond to child psychiatrist, head of the 5-m separation for children and young people Children's Psychiatric Hospital № 6, Moscow Gennady Mikhailovich Sudakov. - Is it possible to distinguish the disease by reducing the appetite that sometimes, caprice, the child refuses to eat? - Firstly, if the child is ill, then, naturally, his appetite will decrease. Secondly, it is impossible to feed the child by force, all of us familiar way: "For the pope, for mum." Third, can occur and so that the child be hurt by their parents and told them the hunger strike. If the parents are reasonable, they will not criticize him. Resentment will pass and he will eat for dinner all. Or do adults so that the child was able to eat quietly, believing that no one noticed. Finally, every person has food fads, such as: foam from the milk, onion soup. As for anorexia nervosa, it really is not a lack of appetite, and a conscious refusal to eat. - What causes contribute to its emergence? - Syndrome reduce appetite may occur in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, as well as in patients with schizophrenia. Principal psychological factor is that they tease peers. Refusal of food, usually associated with the patient's belief that his ugliness, he is full. But doctors believe that it is less a cause and an occasion for developing this syndrome. Also, such an occasion could be an imitation of a celebrity. Be it actors, singers or athletes. Develops the disease in girls aged 12 to 16 years. In girls, it usually occurs in puberty. It should be noted that girls this disease occurs more often than boys. But if the girls there is more than 50 percent are cured, the boys are usually schizophrenia. The first phase of this syndrome - convinced the teenager that he was fat and ugly. This condition is accompanied by depression. This was followed by another stage when the patient begins to indulge in the most high-calorie foods: bread, butter, sugar. Then he gradually begins to narrow your diet, reaching a carrot or cucumber. To suppress your appetite, it gets used constantly something to chew on, such as chewing gum. Very often the desire to lose weight is accompanied by persistent exercise. This fascination with shaping, jogging, lifting weights. The next stage - it's overeating. Patients depressed, because their purpose of life is just to lose weight, but again they ate. There is already going to every means - from artificial vomit up a variety of laxatives. All this leads to what is to our hospital bring their children who have lost 50 percent of their initial weight. In girls, disturbed menstrual cycle. And the further depletion of the body goes, the more affected organs.