The most severe somatic complications of eating disorders and methods of their realimentation. Weight gain as a criterion for successful therapy - a myth. The study of 117 patients with anorexia and bulimia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are primary psychiatric diseases, which can be characterized by food intake problems. A common phenomenon is the focus of treatment only according to body weight, regardless of the patient's metabolic parameters. However, they are complicated by various somatic consequences which can be lethal in approx. 25–35 percent. These statistical data include all deaths of the patients with eating disorders including influence of drug abuse like psychotropic drugs, laxatives, diuretics, thyroid hormones and alcohol. The deaths are also caused by suicide which is most frequent in bulimia nervosa. The mean length of survival is 33 years in these patients. Uncritical and poor compliance to a treatment are characteristic features of these diseases. Anorexia nervosa...

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