ANOREXIA NERVOSA – CONCLUSION

The more severe cases will require admission to hospital. They are perhaps better in a psychiatric ward or hospital rather than a general hospital. Most will respond to encouragement and supervision of meals rather than to forced feeding. However if the weight loss is extreme and the general physical condition is poor then intravenous feeding may be necessary.

Apart from the attention to the physical state, the emotional side of this disorder needs treatment. The girl herself may need intensive psychotherapy. Often the family, especially the parents, may also need counselling, and it may be better in these cases for parents to have a different therapist to the girl herself.

Anorexia nervosa rarely results in death now unless as a result of suicide, but associated depression is not unusual.

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