Thursday 10 March 2011

DEALING WITH MENTAL DISORDERS

MENTAL DISORDER (PART1)

THE FEEDING AND THE EATING DISORDERS OF INFANCY OR EARLY CHILDHOOD

 
" Feeding problems are real; they are hard-wired and neurological. Their far-reaching effects are nutritional, interpersonal, behavioral and developmental, altering the sense of self and self-esteem, family relations, sociability, as well as academic and professional performance."

 Have you seen a woman, a child, or a baby eating painted plaster or dirt  eating r ingestion of animal feces. Well that was the most common sign of a person having a FEEDING DISORDER called PICA. Did you also know that pica is most common in babies, children and adult woman mainly the pregnant.
THEN WHAT IS PICA BY THE WAY?





Pica is an appetite for non-nutritive substances (e.g., coal, soil, chalk, paper etc.) or an abnormal appetite for some things that may be considered foods, such as food ingredients (e.g., flour, raw potato, starch). In order for these actions to be considered pica, they must persist for more than one month, at an age where eating such objects is considered developmentally inappropriate. The condition's name comes from the Latin word for the magpie, a bird which is reputed to eatalmost
anything. Pica is seen in all ages, particularly in pregnant women and small children, especially among children who are developmentally disabled, where it is the most common eating disorder.
Examples of pica
• Amylophagia (consumption of starch)
• Coprophagy (consumption of feces)
• Geophagy (consumption of soil, clay, or chalk)
• Hyalophagia (consumption of glass)
• Consumption of dust or sand has been reported among iron-deficient patients.
• Mucophagia (consumption of mucus)
• Odowa (soft stones eaten by pregnant women in Kenya)[23]
• Pagophagia (pathological consumption of ice)
• Self-cannibalism (rare condition where body parts may be consumed; see also Lesch-Nyhan syndrome)
• Trichophagia (consumption of hair or wool)
• Urophagia (consumption of urine)
• Xylophagia (consumption of wood or paper)

Are you experiencing these things?
* Repeated regurgitation of food
* Repeated re-chewing of food
* Weight loss
* Bad breath and tooth decay
* Repeated stomachaches and indigestion
* Raw and chapped lips
- Be alarm because you might have the Rumination Disorder.

RUMINATION DISORDER is an eating disorder in which a person -- usually an infant or young child brings back up and re-chews partially digested food that has already been swallowed. In most cases, the re-chewed food is then swallowed again; but occasionally, the child will spit it out.

To be considered a disorder, this behavior must occur in children who had previously been eating normally, and it must occur on a regular basis usually daily for at least 1 month. The child may exhibit the behavior during feeding or right after eating.
“Though feeding problems may be based in “nature,” treatment and cure of these syndromes lies squarely within the bounds of “nurture,” assuming there is sufficient motivation and incentive to stimulate change.”


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