Laxative abuse: epidemiology, diagnosis and management.
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Laxative abuse has since been recognized as an unusual cause of chronic diarrhea, abdominal pain, and electrolyte and fluid imbalances.
* Concealed diuretic abuse associated or not with surreptitious vomiting and
laxative abuse should be suspected in young women concerned with their body image.
Stimulant
laxative abuse should also be stopped abruptly, but the consequences of long-term abuse are challenging.
A: Unfortunately, you're experiencing the all-too-common consequences from
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A reliable test for laxative ingestion should be able to detect intermittent as well as daily
laxative abuse. Finally, giving laxatives on a long-term basis to volunteer participants for proficiency testing would be unsafe.
The years of
laxative abuse resulted in a prolapsed bowel which required surgery.
Potassium is used to treat or prevent potassium deficiency caused by diuretic drugs (water pills), prolonged vomiting, diarrhea or
laxative abuse. Potassium may also help reduce hypertension, particularly in people who consume too much sodium.
Indeed, she and her associates have found that
laxative abuse, most common among patients with purging anorexia (72%) and combined anorexia and bulimia nervosa (59%), is associated with a significantly higher prevalence of borderline personality disorder--characterized particularly by feelings of suicidality, self-harm, emptiness, and anger, she reported.
Then to prevent the otherwise inevitable consequence of weight gain there are periods of food restriction and often vomiting,
laxative abuse or excessive exercising.
The purging is most often performed in the form of self-induced vomiting, but may also take the form of
laxative abuse, diuretics (water pills), excessive exercise, fasting or any combination of these methods.
I could not maintain my toothpick figure forever, so I took to
laxative abuse like a nun to religion, swallowing up to 20 a day and spending my life on the toilet floor doubled over with cramps.
