What is the main difference between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa?

What is the main difference between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa?

The main difference between diagnoses is that anorexia nervosa is a syndrome of self-starvation involving significant weight loss of 15 percent or more of ideal body weight, whereas patients with bulimia nervosa are, by definition, at normal weight or above.

When do both bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa typically begin?

Onset is later in both children and adults for anorexia nervosa, and bulimia usually begins in late adolescence or early adulthood. It is usually 15 to 21 years of age that onset is diagnosed or becomes possible to diagnose.

How do you diagnose bulimia nervosa?

Diagnosis

1. Talk to you about your eating habits, weight-loss methods and physical symptoms.
2. Do a physical exam.
3. Request blood and urine tests.
4. Request a test that can identify problems with your heart (electrocardiogram)
5. Perform a psychological evaluation, including a discussion of your attitude toward your body and weight.

Is bulimia more dangerous than anorexia nervosa?

Bulimia Nervosa is as dangerous as anorexia and is often harder to diagnose. The disorder is characterized by a cycle of binging on food and then compensating by self-induced vomiting or use of laxatives. People suffering from bulimia are unable to resist the urge to eat impossible amounts of food.

What does anorexia have in common with bulimia?

Anorexia and bulimia both involve people trying to lose weight in unhealthful ways. People with anorexia and bulimia may fixate on weight and appearance, and they may have a distorted body image. Both conditions result in a person trying to lose weight using unhealthy strategies. There are key differences between anorexia and bulimia.

Is bulimia more difficult to detect than anorexia?

Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder that is much more difficult to detect than anorexia. That’s because the client may appear to be healthy and may seem to have “normal” eating habits; however, a lot of disordered eating and purging occurs in secret.

Are more likely to suffer from bulimia and anorexia nervosa?

Teens with eating disorders more likely to harbor thoughts of suicide, study finds. As for phobias, people with anorexia were 1.8 times more likely to suffer from a social phobia. Those with bulimia were at 3.9 times the risk, but even that jump was dwarfed by those with binge-eating issues, who were 5.9 times as likely to suffer a social phobia.