To begin with, infantile anorexia refers to a particular feeding disorder, which mostly develops between the 6th month of a child’s life and the 3rd year (Merwin, 2010). Its main characteristics include refusal to feed, refusal to consume sufficient quantities, inability of regulating fullness and hunger, more interest in surroundings than eating, distractibility, as well as growth deficiency. Notably, feeding disorders among infants, as well as toddlers have nowadays become more common as the assessment and diagnostic criteria are specialized. However, only few scholars have carried out longitudinal research studies to study specific disorders in details, including the investigations on the effectiveness and success of treatment strategies.
As an exemplar, infantile anorexia represents one of the eating childhood disorders that have not received sufficient attention from the scholars. Perhaps, in order to understand the intricacies of the disorder, it is imperative to get to know how it develops, manifests, as well as its treatment. In this way, someone is able to comprehend more details about the disorder, and possibly purpose to conduct a study that can aid in shedding more light on it and adding value to its current preventive and management strategies. Indeed, if eating disorders are prevented, controlled or treated properly, children will not be at risk of developing certain complications secondary to the deficiencies (Jacobovits, 2011).
Ideally, research indicates that when young children have some form of nutrition deficiency, they may end up having some serious long-term complications. In the recent past, several researchers have realized that if the serious complications in the health of a child secondary to nutriti...
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Anorexia is a serious and life threatening condition. It can result in death due to starvation, heart failure, or electrolyte imbalance. The first step in helping someone suffering with anorexia is to diagnose the physical characteristics attributed with the disease...
There is argument about whether or not Anorexia can be incited by environmental factors and whether the occurrence of Anorexia is increasing at all. The article “Not Our Stars But Ourselves” stated, “Some of these causes may overlap with one another, but biomedical researchers are virtually unanimous that Anorexia has physical roots” (Schwarz). The article also question whether growing a...
Anorexia is a serious disorder that involves compulsive dieting and excessive weight loss. According to The National Institute of Mental Health, anorexia is characterized by emaciation, a relentless pursuit of thinness, and extremely disturbed eating behaviors (Parks, 2009). The “disturbed eating behaviors” associated with anorexia include unhealthy weight loss and weight control methods, behaviors such as abusing or self-induced vomiting, and a distorted view of one’s personal appearance (Shepphird, 2010). Anorexics in general survive on 500 calories or less per day, and they count every calorie they consume (Parks, 2009). Symptoms often also include the inability or refusal to maintain a healthy weight and a great fear of gaining weight (Shepphird, 2010).
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With children as early as age 7 showing dissatisfaction with their body, and as young as 9 starting dieting, eating disorders are a serious issue in our society. Taking a look at perceptions, behaviors, and medical issues associated with the disorders of anorexia and bulimia, scholars have tried to categorize and find answers to the problems which certain adolescents suffer. In this paper I focused on the two major eating disorders of anorexia and bulimia.
Did you know that in 2010/2011 official statistics stated that more than 6,500 children and teenagers were treated in hospitals for eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa? Anorexia is probably the most known and common eating disorders out there, along with bulimia. Anorexia is an eating disorder that makes people lose a lot more weight than is thought to be healthy for their age or height. The people who are diagnosed with it could have a fear of gaining weight and over exercise, diet, skip meals, or simply don’t eat at all in order to lose weight. Bulimia is most of the times together with anorexia because the person with it is also is trying to lose a lot of weight by not only starving but also purging. The person will most of the times over eat because their body is starving and afterwards the person will most likely feel guilty and most of the times that leads to the person throwing ...
According to Sheah Rarback, the growth rate in infants is rapid and the birth weight of an infant is often doubled by five months of age (Rarback, Sheah, 2011). The two main forms of nutrition during the first four months of infancy is either breastmilk or infant formula (Rarback, Sheah, 2011). Then at four months of age, solid foods can start to be introduced (Rarback, Sheah, 2011). Once toddlerhood is reached, a child’s growth rate begins to slow and the child begins to eat more solid foods than the child ate during infancy (Coila, Bridget, 2011).
Failure to thrive (FTT) in children and infants, results from inadequate nutrition to maintain the growth and development. In many cases, FTT is either the result of possible medical issues that the mother or child may be experiencing. It However, in the extreme form, it could become fatal and many times this is the result of a caregiver or parent. In the paper, we will look at the causes, interventions and the impact that FTT may have on families (Shelov and Altmann, 2009, p.614).
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According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), “Feeding and eating disorders are characterized by a persistent disturbance of eating or eating related-behavior that results in the altered consumption of absorption of food and that significantly impairs physical health or psychosocial functioning.” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013)
Bronte-Tinkew, J., Zaslow, M., Capps, R., & Horowitz, A. (2007). Food insecurity and overweight among infants and toddlers: New insights into a troubling linkage. Washington, DC: Child Trends.
Exposure to disordered feeding styles manifest physical and emotional effects. BN and BED mothers had children with higher weight-for-age. Although a general finding was that the children of mothers with eating disorder weighed less than controls and this was related to the amount of mealtime conflict.13 Subjects with BN had a birth weight below the 10th percentile significantly more often than controls, 30% vs 17%, respectively, as well as a birth length below the 10th percentile significantly more often than controls 17% vs 9%, respectively, and subjects with AN 17% vs 6%,
Many have a love-hate relationship with food. Some loves eating while some doesn’t. In such, many of those people tend to develop an eating disorder by knowing or otherwise. Binge eating disorder, Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa are some examples of eating disorders. It affects mainly women but also many men and even children. Research of the past two decades has shown that majority of people who have eating disorder are adolescents. (National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD), 2011). However, incidences of eating disorders are on the rise, affecting both men & women primarily in the Western countries (ANAD, 2011). We have to be mindful so as to abstain from considering them in oversimplified terms like, "anorexia is simply a request for consideration" or "bulimia is simply an addiction to food." Eating issue emerge from a mixed bag of physical, passionate, social and family issues, all of which need to be tended to for successful prevention and medication (PBS, 2003).