Criteria for hospitalization of anorexia patient

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Indexed  January 10, 2012

Anorexia nervosa, or AN as it is also known, is an extremely severe and potentially fatally psychiatric disorder. It is often exhibited in the young female, but can also appear in the somewhat older young males. Unfortunately because the number of men who are afflicted are significantly less than females this problems often remains undiagnosed for many months. Signs and symptoms of this disorder are: picking out just a few foods and focusing on those foods in very limited quantities, excessive exercising and weighing in sessions, altered or distorted body image, cold intolerance, brittle nails, thinning hair, a soft downy like hair on the body in places not normally seen such as the arms, fatigue, dizziness, absence of menstrual periods in a female, constipation, dry skin, abnormal heart ...   See the complete post here