00:00 Let's take a look at eating disorders now. 00:03 Eating disorders are a form of chronic illnesses that are associated with other mental health disorders like depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders. 00:15 Anorexia, or the absence of all appetite is a psychiatric disorder that leads to self starvation and weight loss that is life threatening. 00:28 I will let you know that at one point I had a patient. 00:32 I had not met her in person. Her mom had called me. 00:37 They were having problems at home. She was on a cheer team. 00:42 She had become very obsessive about her weight, not wanting to eat. 00:47 Would eat a little bit of dinner and take the rest to her room. 00:50 And finally, she was losing so much weight that it really worried her mom. They went to a cheer competition. 00:59 And when they came back, her mom called me from the airport and brought her directly to my office. 01:05 This young lady was about 5 foot 3. 01:08 And if she weighed 70 pounds, that was a light. 01:12 I looked at her and I asked her some very clear questions. 01:18 And she told me she couldn't eat a full gummy bear that if she ate a tiny bite of the ear of a gummy bear, you know, we're talking gummy bear, she would start to feel nauseous and full. 01:32 I had that child brought from my house, straight to the emergency room. 01:37 She had had arrhythmias. 01:39 All of her metabolic results were completely off, and she was near death. 01:47 And yet, this disease is so chronic, that families don't understand that the person who has an eating disorder might just be starving themselves to death. 02:03 There are three disorders that are eating disorders. 02:08 One is anorexia nervosa. 02:10 One is bulimia nervosa. 02:13 And the other is the Binge-eating disorder.
The lecture Introduction – Eating Disorder (Nursing) by Brenda Marshall, EdD, MSN, RN is from the course Eating Disorders (Nursing).
What symptoms may the nurse suspect a client with anorexia nervosa to present with? Select all that apply.
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