Symptoms

If you or a loved one has anorexia, you have seen how devastating the disease can be to a person’s health and body. The self-starvation and excessive weight loss that characterizes anorexia can be life-threatening, and can result in serious medical consequences.

The following side effects of anorexia should not be taken lightly. If you or a loved one is experiencing any of these serious health consequences, anorexia treatment is needed immediately:

Heart Damage: Anorexia affects your heart, resulting in an abnormally slow heart rate and low blood pressure. As your heart rate and blood pressure continue to decrease, your risk for a heart attack or heart failure rises.

Osteoporosis: Anorexia reduces the density of your bones through the depletion of calcium and bone protein. This creates dry, brittle bones that are prone to being fractured and broken.

Kidney Failure: The severe dehydration, vitamin deficiencies, infection and low blood pressure that result from anorexia can lead to permanent kidney damage and kidney failure.

Hair Loss: Anorexia causes vitamin and mineral deficiencies, malnutrition and dehydration that can result in hair loss, as well as dry hair and skin.

Muscle Loss and Weakness: Because an anorexic’s body needs to feed off itself to get the nutrients it needs, muscle often weakens and deteriorates.

Lanugo: Lanugo is soft, downy hair that grows on the face, back and arms in an effort to keep a person warm during periods of starvation and malnutrition.

Many of these side effects of anorexia are life-threatening, and none of them will go away on their own. Call Rader Programs today to get the anorexia treatment you need to stop harming your body and get back on track to a healthy lifestyle.

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