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Complication associated with intractable anorexia nervosa would be.

Complication associated with intractable anorexia nervosa would be. Correct Answer Cardiac dysrhythmias resulting to cardiac arrest

Concept:

  • Eating disorders are also most common among adolescent and adult group
  • Women are more prone to get this kind of disorder than men
  • Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are the two major types of eating disorders
  • Biological, psychological and social causes can lead to anorexia nervosa
  • The following could be the signs and symptoms of anorexia nervosa:
    • Extreme weight loss 
    • Thin body built
    • Abnormal blood count
    • malaise
    • insomnia
    • Dizziness
    • cyanosis
    • Thin hair, that  breaks or falls out
    • Absence of menstruation or menstrual disturbances
    • Constipation & abdominal pain
    • Dry or yellowish discoloration of eye
  • Complications include
    • Increased risk of cardiac arrest.
    • Coughing with eating .
    • Gastric emptying will be delayed
    • Bradycardia
    • Cardiac structure abnormalities.
    • Risk of lung collapse.
    • Anemia.
    • Suppressed immune response
  • Treatment includes
    • Behavioural therapy
    • Training the behaviour of person and arranging the diet acording to their preference
    • Preparing a colourful and delicious menu
    • Frequent and interval feeding
    • Continuation of antipsychotic medicine as per advice

Important Points

  • Protracted hypoglycemia is a complication that arise during the treatment of schizophrenia, by giving insulin shock
  • Psychiatric drugs leads to many other complications
  • Incomplete useage of not following the regimen also causes increased risk for complications 
  • Patient with this protracted hypoglycemia will exhibit the symptoms like catatonia and may not have connection with the external environment, will also include all other symptoms like anxiety, restlessness, insomina, stupor and muslcuar rigity can also been experienced by patients etc.

Related Questions

The following sentences form a paragraph. The sentences are numbered as P, Q, R, S and T. These sentences are not given in their proper order. Read the sentences and choose the alternative that arranges them in the correct order. P- Anorexia is a very serious eating disorder and mental health condition which can be life-threatening if it is not recognised and treated in time, it has a huge negative impact on both the mind and the body. Q- ‘Anorexia nervosa is interchangeable with the term anorexia, which refers to self-starvation and lack of appetite’. R- Someone who suffers from anorexia struggles to maintain a healthy weight, because of the psychological impact it has on an individual they will experience the extreme need to continuously lose weight, S- they develop a very negative perception of self-image and can experience extreme anxiety at the fear of gaining weight. T- The most common age for anorexia to start developing is adolescent years, sadly for some who are anorexic, it becomes a way of life with no endpoint which has resulted in very young deaths as a result of starvation and the body shutting down.
Anorexia nervosa is characterized by all except:
The symptom found in a girl with anorexia nervosa is:
What are the main symptoms of anorexia nervosa?
What is anorexia nervosa?
Anorexia nervosa is which type of disorder
Which is the characteristic of anorexia nervosa?
A nurse is caring for an infant who has intractable vomiting. The MOST important likely complication is:
The therapeutic environment for client with bulimia nervosa would be the one that is:
Select the word or phrase that is most closely opposite in meaning to the capitalized word : INTRACTABLE