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Many people with eating disorders can be effectively treated in outpatient care. However knowing how to access outpatient care can be a major challenge for individuals and families, at the same time as trying to cope with the physical and psychological stresses of the eating disorder.
Most commonly, the GP is the first professional you see if you are seeking treatment for an eating disorder. There are 1.6 million people in the UK who have an eating disorder, which means an average GP will have...
Protecting my Children From Developing an Eating Disorder?
Any parent reading an account of a young person with anorexia is likely to feel a sense of both anxiety and concern. They wonder how a young person can develop such a damaging and bewildering disorder and whether there is anything they can do themselves, to protect their own children.
It is important to start by emphasising that there are many factors involved in the development of eating disorders. When a child develops an eating disorder, it is not because their parents have done something...
My Child Has an Eating Disorder - What Should I Do?
Many parents who suspect their child has an eating disorder are unsure what to do to address their concerns. Although there is specialist advice and support available, it is difficult to access without the co-operation of the sufferer and it is understandable that broaching the subject with a son or daughter, often during their adolescence, can be a worrying prospect.
However difficult it may be, experts advise parents to try and find the earliest available opportunity to discuss their...
Eating Disorders and Laxatives
Driven by the compulsive need to avoid weight gain, many eating disorder sufferers consume large quantities of laxatives in order to rid the body of the food they eat.
Laxatives are a readily available form of medication normally taken to treat constipation. Indeed, sufferers of bulimia and anorexia often complain about constipation and feeling bloated.
Such symptoms occur because the food and fluid their diet supplies are not of the right quality or constitution to enable the bowel to...
A Parent's Guide to Recognising an Eating Disorder
There are a number of recurring signs and symptoms commonly exhibited by a young person with an eating disorder. Knowing what to look for can provide parents with an early warning and enable them to intervene appropriately at an early stage in the condition's development.
Eating disorders commonly develop from around the age of 14, a time when most children are naturally and steadily becoming more independent. That normal process of maturing does, however, give rise to a convergence of...
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