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The diagnosis of disease
The diagnosis of anorexia mental doctor based on three core symptoms:
- lack of menstruation in women. The lack of menstruation may be primary (when menstruation has not occurred at all in the life of the patient, although that should have come to the event - the process of maturation has been detained) or secondary (when menstruation occurred regularly, and there was a loss of menstruation),
- fear before the patient even in extreme states of body destruction,
- their own body image ( "I am fat," even though a significant destruction of organism) and the characteristic (described above) personality characteristics.
To recognize anorexia must rule out other causes of destruction and the body's nutritional disorders such as cancer cachexia, brain tumors, disease-Leśniowskiego Crohna, mucous membrane inflammation of the esophagus, stomach ulcers, inflammation of the gall bladder, pancreas and other diseases.
With the suspicion of irregularities occurring in the body should always be reported to your doctor - your doctor will give the correct diagnosis on the basis of allowing the identification and then put in place to identify appropriate treatment.
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