eating and feeding disorders Flashcards
anorexia nervosa General assessment
- Perception of the problem
- Eating habits: chopping food, pushing food to one side
- History of dieting: extreme
- Methods used to achieve weight control: diretics, vomiting, ememas
- Value attached to a specific shape and weight: self esteem attached to shape
- Interpersonal and social functioning: difficult for friends and families to understand
- Mental status and - physiological parameters: feats of gainign wegith
s/s of anorexia
cold extremities, fatigue, languo: downey hair, hypokalemia, NA decr, yellow skin, amenorhea, low weight
restrciton anorexia
not had recurrent pinge and purg in last 3 months
binge and purg
binge and purg or laxatives, vomiting, diretics in 3m
anorexia nursing diagnosis
***Imbalanced nutrition
Decreased cardiac output
Risk for injury (electrolyte imbalance)
Risk for imbalanced fluid volume
disturbed body image, ineffective coping, chronic low self-esteem, and powerlessness.
AN managed by
doc, impatient unit, eatinf disorder
AN weight
below 75% should be 90%
body fat 10% or less bp systolic 90 or less, hr less than 50 temp 96 and dysthmias
refeeding syndrome
food introduced too quickly, lethal treatment, electrolites go crazy
food needs to be introduced slowly
refeeding syndrome s/s
fatigue, weakness, confusion, sleeping, increase bp, seizures, edema, coma, irreg hr
AN acute care
- *** Suicidal ideation first
- Psychosocial interventions: no approved meds specifically, prozack is helpful for ocd behaviors
- Pharmacological interventions
- Integrative medicine: accupuncture, massage, herbal treatments
- Health teaching and health promotion
- Safety and teamwork
AN safety and teamwork
weight respiration program
- not above 90%may stop treatment
- coping and probelm solving
- normalize eating specific habit
- schedule weights
- family go to bathroom
bulimia appear
at or near ideal body weight
bulimia physical signs
Enlarged parotid glands, dental erosion, and caries if the patient has been inducing vomiting.
bulimia emotional and relationships
Impulsivity and compulsivity
Chaotic, non-nurturing family relationships
Familial and/or social instability
Difficult interpersonal relationships
bulimia diagnoses
Decreased cardiac output, disturbed body image, ineffective coping, powerlessness, chronic low self-esteem, and social isolation