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Weighing Patients and Eating Disorders

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Char_syringe_max50

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Posted over 5 years ago

 

Will weighing every patient actually help raise awareness about eating disorders?

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I am not sure if weighing will prevent all cases of eating disorder. I can see young teenagers able to go under the radar if hospitalized. i don't think weigh willbe able to detect the beginning stages of an eating disorder.

Demetrice_029

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No, I don't think weighing the patients alone helps in determining if the patient has a eating disorder. A patient with anorexia nervosa wants to become as thin as possibe which the patients deliberaterly starves herself, or engages in binge eating and purging. The key clinical finding is a refusal to sustain weight at or above mininimun requirements for the patients's age and height. If left untreated, anorexia nervosa can cause the patient's death. Patients with any eating disorder exhibits severe disturbance in body image. So the key data collection finding, is Body image disturbance, and along with other collection findings, which 20 including data, and diagnostic findings.


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Char_syringe_max50

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So do you think a mental evaluation would be more appropriate? How about a combination of the two?

Cartoon_nurse_dancing_max50

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That sounds more appropriate. I have no problem with weighing them, but it's only probably 35% of the solution.