Symptoms of Bulimia

Here are some symptoms of bulimia.

* Recurrent episodes of eating large quantities of food (binge).
* Consumption of foods rich hypercaloric with large amounts of fluids.
* Completion atracón with abdominal pain and vomiting.
* Repeated attempts to lose weight with diets, laxatives, diuretics and vomiting.
* Fluctuations in weight. Increases and decreases by sudden changes in food.

Organic symptoms of bulimia

Bad eating habits lead to serious metabolic and functional result. The continued irritation of the esophagus by repeated vomiting causes chronic esophagitis therefore often ingest large quantities of milk, which on the one hand makes the vomiting and the other decreases the heat produced by esophagitis.

Often these patients are referred by the dentist who discovered the imprint of teeth irreversible leaving the impact of vomiting on the teeth as well as the corrosive action of gastric juices. Unlike anorexia no amenorrhea (absence of menstruation), but irregularities.

The loss with vomiting of substances called electrolytes (sodium, potassium, magnesium, etc.) Produces cramps, muscle pain, changes in the kidneys, heart arrhythmias and frequent cause of death in these patients.