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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 ...
Psychiatry. Other specified feeding or eating disorder ( OSFED) is a subclinical DSM-5 category that, along with unspecified feeding or eating disorder (UFED), replaces the category formerly called eating disorder not otherwise specified ( EDNOS) in the DSM-IV-TR. [1] It captures feeding disorders and eating disorders of clinical severity that ...
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 ...
With so much attention paid to severe cases of eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, it’s important to have awareness of even the most subtle symptoms of disordered eating and how they ...
Psychiatry. Unspecified feeding or eating disorder ( UFED) is a DSM-5 category of eating disorders that, along with other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED), replaced eating disorder not otherwise specified ( EDNOS) in the DSM-IV-TR . UFED is an eating disorder that does not meet the criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa ...
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 ...
During menopause, your body and brain undergo some radical shifts that can contribute to the development of an eating disorder. New hormone fluctuations not only impact your sleep and mood but can ...
Feeding disorder. A feeding disorder, in infancy or early childhood, is a child's refusal to eat certain food groups, textures, solids or liquids for a period of at least one month, which causes the child to not gain enough weight, grow naturally or cause any developmental delays. [1] Feeding disorders resemble failure to thrive, except that at ...