Bulimia

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** Bulimia is an illness in which a person binges on food or has regular episodes** **of significant overeating and** **feels a loss of control.** >
 * ====Methods include: vomiting or laxative abuse, all to prevent weight gain. ====
 * ====Factors causing bulimia: genetic, psychological, trauma, family, society, or cultural. ====
 * ====Symptoms: eating large amounts of high-calorie food (binging), purging includes vomiting, regularly going to the bathroom right after meals which prevents weight gain, excessively exercise, and the use of laxatives, enemas (drugs that induce vomiting), or diuretics (drugs that reduce fluids, also called water pills). ====
 * ====Signs: dental cavities or gum infections (gingivitis), enamel of teeth eroded or pitted, broken blood vessels in the eyes, dehydration, dry mouth, swollen salivary glands, rashes, pimples, small cuts and calluses across the tops of the finger joints due to self-induced vomiting. ====

Body weight is often in the normal range, although people with Bulimia often see themselves as being overweight.


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