Purging Anorexia

Purging anorexia is a type of anorexia where an individual will have the tendency to induce vomiting once he or she has eaten.  The sufferer will eat and after digesting they will immediately be overcome with a sense of shame and guilt for the action that they have done and will force themselves to be sick to rid themselves of the food.  This is done either through vomiting or ingesting diuretics or laxatives to take out the food they have eaten.
 
Purging anorexia can lead to serious problems within the digestive system and in particular, in the esophagus.  This is because the acid could burst or rupture the esophagus.  Another form of purging anorexia is with the use of laxatives.  Anreoixs mainly think that laxatives help them in losing weight, but the thing is laxatives only work at the lower end of the bowel.  Misuse of laxatives can further damage the digestive tract.
 
Purging anorexia induces vomiting in order to get rid of the calories that they have you have eaten.  They usually do it after binge eating.  Anorexics do it because they do not want to gain weight.
 
The methods in which individuals force themselves to lose weight is by gagging themselves with the use of their fingers sticking them up to their throat.  This induces vomiting without even trying too hard.  However, the vomiting only gets rid of a bout a third of the calories that an individual has ingested.
 
Other purging anorexia sufferers use diuretics in order to purge.  These water pills make you pass a lot of urine.  However this only makes your body lose more water and not the fat and the calories.  This is dangerous as it can lead to electrolyte dissipation and dehydration.
 
Another method used by purging anorexia sufferers is ingesting laxatives.  What laxatives only do is make the food you have ingested to move faster within your gut.  Too much of this will give you a bad case of diarrhea.  These laxatives do not work until they get into the intestines, and that is why they do not work because by then the calories and nutrients have already been absorbed by the body or stored as fat.
 
Purging anorexia sufferers do not realize that the methods that they use to rid themselves of the calories they so wanted to rid off are not really working.  However they have this recurring need to purge in order to stay thin.

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