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Pagophagia. Pagophagia (from Greek: pagos, frost/ice, + phagÅ, to eat [ 1]) is the compulsive consumption of ice or iced drinks. [ 2] It is a form of the disorder known as pica, which in Latin refers to a magpie that eats everything indiscriminately. [ 3] Pica's medical definition refers to the persistent consumption of nonnutritive substances ...
Pica is the eating or craving of things that are not food. [ 2] It is classified as an eating disorder but can also be the result of an existing mental disorder. [ 3] The ingested or craved substance may be biological, natural or manmade. The term was drawn directly from the medieval Latin word for magpie, a bird subject to much folklore ...
Psychology. The Eating Attitudes Test ( EAT, EAT-26 ), created by David Garner, is a widely used 26-item, standardized self-reported questionnaire of symptoms and concerns characteristic of eating disorders. The EAT is useful in assessing "eating disorder risk" in high school, college and other special risk samples such as athletes.
Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder. Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder ( ARFID) is a feeding or eating disorder in which individuals significantly limit the volume or variety of foods they consume, causing malnutrition, weight loss, and/or psychosocial problems. [ 1] Unlike eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia ...
t. e. Postpartum depression ( PPD ), also called postnatal depression, is a mood disorder experienced after childbirth, which can affect men and women. [ 3] Symptoms may include extreme sadness, low energy, anxiety, crying episodes, irritability, and changes in sleeping or eating patterns. [ 1] PPD can also negatively affect the newborn child ...
Pediatrics. Failure to thrive ( FTT ), also known as weight faltering or faltering growth, indicates insufficient weight gain or absence of appropriate physical growth in children. [ 2][ 3] FTT is usually defined in terms of weight, and can be evaluated either by a low weight for the child's age, or by a low rate of increase in the weight. [ 4]
Trimethylaminuria. Trimethylaminuria ( TMAU ), also known as fish odor syndrome or fish malodor syndrome, [ 1] is a rare metabolic disorder that causes a defect in the normal production of an enzyme named flavin-containing monooxygenase 3 (FMO3). [ 2][ 3] When FMO3 is not working correctly or if not enough enzyme is produced, the body loses the ...
Eating disorder; Specialty: Psychiatry, clinical psychology: Symptoms: Abnormal eating habits that negatively affect physical or mental health [1]: Complications: Anxiety disorders, depression, substance abuse, [2] arrhythmia, heart failure and other heart problems, acid reflux (gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD), gastrointestinal problems, low blood pressure (hypotension), organ failure ...