Obsessed with obesity, eating a lot, pulling out the throat to vomit, taking food enema

Mar 27, 2022 07:36 GMT+7

Binge eating because of stress

Ms. Pham Thi Thanh Mai (character name has changed, 33 years old, Hanoi) is always obsessed with her weight. Mai is 1.51cm tall but weighs 58kg. The sister is always round. For more than a year, Mai has been staying at home because of the epidemic and taking care of the children, she has gained more and more weight.

At home, she does a few other jobs and takes care of two small children aged 3 and 5, one of which has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. You are too naughty to make this mother stressed.

When stressed, Mai fell into an uncontrolled eating situation, always craving food. After eating and gaining weight, Mai was afraid to buy all kinds of weight loss pills and enemas. She drank to detox the food. On the Internet selling drugs “eating delicious without worrying about fat”, Mai also bought them to try.

Drinking after eating only 4-5 hours later, she will be stimulated with abdominal pain and diarrhea, expelling all the food that she ate before. One day, Mai pushed a toothbrush into her throat to vomit with food.

Recently, she often has chest pain, feeling short of breath. Mai thought she had a heart condition, so she went to the hospital to get checked. The doctor said that she had a peptic ulcer accompanied by reflux esophagitis.

At this time, Mai Mai talked about her eating situation and pulled out her throat to push the food out for fear of being fat. After treating her stomach and esophagus, the doctor advised Mai to find a psychologist because of signs of depression.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Anh Tuan – Deputy Director of the Institute of Digestive Surgery, 108 Central Military Hospital states that uncontrolled binge eating habits are not uncommon. Dr. Tuan said it is most common in women and girls at puberty.

Patients with binge eating then they get scared and find ways to excrete food such as taking laxatives, hooking the throat to vomit, even taking medicine to vomit and exercising too hard.

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If you keep eating too much and are afraid to apply the above measures, the patient will not stop at the level of binge eating, but it will also be a state like a mental illness.

Eat a lot of diseases

According to Associate Professor Tuan, bulimia manifests as:

firstthat person lacks control over eating, even though you try, can’t stop the story of eating and drinking to the point of being too full, the body swells up, the stomach hurts but still wants to eat.

Secondthat person always finds a way to hide his eating, clumsy eating, hiding not wanting the presence of others.

Tuesday, When overeating is over, fear of causing weight gain and obesity should reach the extreme stage of not eating or finding ways to vomit and remove food from the body. All of these actions are hidden from view.

Wednesday, After eating, I’m afraid of getting fat, exercise and exercise with very strong intensity to lose weight.

With enough effort, they both fail to lose weight and become anxious and fearful, leading to bulimia nervosa.

The cause of this disease, Assoc. Tuan said, is mainly psychological. The patient has an emotional disturbance. There are people who suffer from stress, excessive anxiety, depression. Associate Professor Tuan believes that depression is also the cause of the patient’s binge eating.

In children with binge eating, those with mental trauma such as being sexually abused, rejected by their parents, beaten, and using stimulants by their parents are also the causes of bulimia.

When suffering from this disorder, the patient puts himself in a dangerous situation. The body can lead to electrolyte disturbances, decreased blood potassium due to diuretics, stimulate vomiting, laxatives … make the body tired, weak, trembling legs, kidney failure, heart rhythm disturbances. In young children, if they are worried about hiding from their parents, it is even more dangerous.

When you overeat and then try to vomit, hooking your throat also causes esophageal ulcers, gastroesophageal reflux, increased blood pressure due to vomiting a lot…

Binge eating causes uncontrolled weight gain leading to faster weight gain. Assoc. Prof. Tuan once met a student who came to the obesity clinic to share that he gained 20kg during the summer vacation or had a child come back from the US because he had to be isolated and gained up to 30 kg in a few months. This affects a lot of the body, affecting height growth, menstrual disorders, amenorrhea, hair loss, constipation due to laxative abuse…

Associate Professor Tuan said that if the patient’s parents or themselves find that they are binge eating, they need to see a doctor for psychological support. If psychological support is good, it will be effective.

Assoc. Eat and drink as much as snack areas to gradually give up eating.

Khanh Chi