Definitions Labs and Tests Random Consequences of Purging Consequences of restricting
100
What is binge eating?
Eating a large amount of food, in a relatively short period of time, associated with a sense of lack of control and distress over the quantity or pace of eating or type of food consumed.
100
What is a bone density scan?
DEXA scan
100
What is anorexia?
This mental illness carries the second highest death rate of any mental illness.
100
What is laxative abuse or diuretic abuse?
No calories are lost when using this form of purging.
100
What is constipation?
Straining, having lumpy or hard stools, feeling the sensation of incomplete evacuation or the sensation of stool obstruction, needing to assist stool removal, or having fewer than three bowel movements a week. (during at least 25% of bowel movements)
200
What are forms of purging?
Vomiting, laxative abuse, diuretic abuse, and excessive exercise.
200
What is bradycardia?
Heart rate less than 60 beats per minute.
200
What is Health at Every Size?
An activist movement that emerged as a response to health professionals realizing that weight loss intervention is an unethical intervention.
200
What is dental erosion, angular cheilitis, parotid gland swelling, or ruptured blood vessels in the eye?
Name two ways purging can physically/visibly damage the body (head).
200
What is hypoglycemia?
Blood glucose of less than 70mg/dL.
300
What is ARFID?
An eating disorder characterized by a lack of interest in food, avoidance of sensory aspects of food, or concern about what might happen when they eat, making them unable to meet their energy intake needs consistently?
300
What is vitamin D deficiency?
Fatigue, not sleeping well, bone pain or achiness, depression or feelings of sadness, hair loss, muscle weakness, loss of appetite, and getting sick more easily can be symptoms of a deficiency in what?
300
What is binge eating disorder and OSFED?
The most common eating disorder in those over 40 years.
300
What is rumination?
The act of regurgitating food into the mouth, chewing it, and re-swallowing it.
300
What is gastroparesis?
Stomach paralysis.
400
What is orthorexia?
An unhealthy obsession with eating healthy food.
400
What are platelets?
(low WBC and RBC counts with restriction secondary to bone marrow suppression due to malnutrition)
Lab value from CBC that contributes to easy bruising in malnutrition.
400
What is lanugo?
Fine downy hair on face, arms, and back.
400
What is Pseudo-Barter Syndrome?
This syndrome results in painful fluid retention, and it takes weeks for the adrenal glands to understand that the body is well hydrated.
400
What is bone density loss?
Of all the medical complications of malnutrition, this is the only one that is not fully reversible.
500
What is starvation?
Any situation in which not enough calories are consumed to fulfill the body's needs over a period of time?
500
What is low potassium?
Consequences of this electrolyte imbalance puts a person at risk for muscle weakness, muscle breakdown, intestinal dysfunction, and cardiac arrest.
500
What is medically underweight?
Only 4% of eating disorder clients in residential treatment meet the criteria for being this.
500
What is a Mallory-Weis tear?
A partial thickness tear of the esophagus.
500
What is refeeding syndrome?
Critical electrolyte and fluid shifts that can potentially be fatal if not monitored.






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