If left untreated, bulimia can result in long-term health problems such as abnormal heart rhythms, bleeding from the esophagus due to excessive reflux of stomach acid, dental problems, and kidney problems. However, bulimia can be treated successfully through cognitive-behavioral therapy, certain antic...
eating, exercise, and body image. These disorders impact approximately 20 million women and 10 million men in the United States and are found in all populations regardless of age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religion, sex, gender, etc. ...
It starts at your mouth, moves through your esophagus to your stomach, then on to your large intestine, and finally out through your anus. As it goes along this journey it gets processed to a point where you can't even recognize it, and all that nutrition and goodness are absorbed and ...
Signs of bulimia include anxiety about appearance, eating large amounts of food at a time, hoarding food and eating in secret. Untreated bulimia can lead to tooth decay, gum disease and problems with the heart, kidney and esophagus. This eating disorder is especially dangerous when purging is ...
Albumin, which is the predominant protein in the blood and helps maintain blood volume, is reduced in cirrhosis primarily because the damaged liver is not able to produce enough of it. Other consequences of portal hypertension include dilated veins in the esophagus (varices), prominent veins in ...
Digestive system disease, any of the diseases that affect the human digestive tract. Such disorders may affect the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine (colon), pancreas, liver, or biliary tract. A prevalent disorder of the digestive syst
The swallowing process is a compound sensori-motor behavior that includes the coordinated relaxation and contraction of the muscle tissues around the tongue, mouth, pharynx, larynx, and upper esophagus1,2,3. Of the muscles contributing to the swallowing process, the supra- and infrahyoid muscles ...
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Treatment of Hashimoto’s Disease[18] Treatment of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis typically requires lifelong thyroid hormone replacement, mainly with levothyroxine. If there is a very large goiter compressing the airways or the esophagus, or if there is suspicion of a lymphoma, then surgica...
Calcium and bone disorders Polycystic ovarian syndrome specialists:They specialize in treating people who are critically injured or sick to avoid chances of disability. Gastroenterologists:These doctors focus on treating disorders of the esophagus, stomach, pancreas, intestine,liver, and gall bladder, whi...