Many teenage girls, wanting to achieve model parameters, go to extremes: they deliberately refuse to eat, cause vomiting after eating, drink laxatives, and exhaust themselves with physical exercises. This behavior indicates a serious mental disorder – anorexia nervosa. It is difficult to recognize it at the first stages, because the child tries to hide his illness from his parents.
The first signs of anorexia that parents should pay close attention to:
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Extremely limited calorie-counting meals.
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Eating separately from the whole family under any pretext.
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Constant conversations about your figure, weight loss, despite the normal weight.
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Weight loss.
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Absent-mindedness, fatigue, weakness, depression or vice versa, mood elevation, excessive activity.
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Cessation of menstruation.
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Brittleness, dullness, hair loss
The main danger of anorexia is the inevitable occurrence of disorders of the body's vital functions, which can lead to serious diseases of the digestive, endocrine, and reproductive systems.
If you notice these signs in your daughter, this is a reason to seek help from a specialist as soon as possible.
How to cure anorexia?
Treatment of anorexia should be comprehensive, involving doctors of various specialties. Inpatient treatment is considered the most effective, since only in a hospital setting is it possible to constantly monitor not only the adequate nutrition of patients, but also their general condition. One of the few institutions in Moscow that offers inpatient treatment for anorexia is the multidisciplinary European Medical Center. Especially for teenagers, doctors have developed a short program of hospitalization followed by outpatient treatment, it consists of four stages.
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A thorough diagnosis of the body makes it possible to assess the general and psychoemotional state of health of a teenage girl and identify the cause of the disease. Patients with anorexia are monitored by a psychiatrist, a psychotherapist, a clinical psychologist, a nutritionist, an endocrinologist, a gynecologist and a therapist. The diagnostic process is completed by a professorial consultation, which develops an individual treatment plan.
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Cognitive behavioral psychotherapy and drug therapy throughout the treatment program. Psychotherapy allows you to normalize your diet, change your attitude to your weight, to yourself, and medications help to relieve nervous tension, cope with symptoms of depression, and reduce negative attitudes towards therapy. Doctors select modern, safe drugs for each patient, taking into account the characteristics of his body.
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Outpatient therapy after inpatient treatment. For a long time, the teenager continues to be monitored by the same doctors who helped him cope with the disease in the hospital. Regular meetings with specialists make it possible to consolidate the result of treatment and develop resistance to the risk factor.
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Family support throughout therapy – educating parents on the correct assessment of a teenager's condition, effective communication skills, and necessary psycho-emotional support for the child. This improves the prognosis of the disease and reduces the risk of repeated exacerbations, helps to correct child-parent relations, and restore harmony to the family.
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