Nowadays everybody is familiar with the term “bulimia”. It describes an  eating disorder whose symptoms contain overeating  followed  by an effort to get rid of the extra  calories, usually  through self-induced vomiting. Surveys  show that women are  nine times more likely  to be bulimic than men.

 

The most common symptoms can be:

• Chronic gastro esophageal reflux disease (pathological condition in which the acidic gastric contents instead of  continuing their normal flow from the stomach to the small intestine for the completion of digestion, return to the esophagus)

• Dehydration caused by  the vomiting

• Inflammation

• Mouth wounds

• Constipation

• Ulcers

• Continuous weight changes.

            The diagnostic criteria for bulimia are the following:

1. Repeated episodes of overeating

2. Repeated inappropriate unstable behavior to prevent weight gain.

3. Overeating and inappropriate unstable behaviour occur on average at least twice a week for three months.

               

        The estimation of the self  are unjustly  influenced by body shape and weight.

 

 

There are two types of bulimia nervosa:

• The type in which the person regularly engages in self-induced vomiting and abuse of laxatives, diuretics or grout.

• the type in which the person does not use the above but rather fasts and does excessive exercise.