The consequences of the Covid 19 pandemic on eating disorders
The consequences of the Covid 19 pandemic on eating disorders

Summary/Abstract: The novel coronavirus has a great impact over mental health, individuals with eating disorders may be particularly affected by the distancing measures, quarantine thus to a difficult access to professional mental health services, this exacerbating phenomenology .Eating behaviour disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder in which individuals express abnormal eating behaviours, often resulting in either insufficient or excessive food intake. Multiple implication factors such as genetic, biological, behavioural, and psycho-social have been incriminated. Multiple psychiatric comorbidities can be associated like anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse, personality disorders, attention-deficit and an increased risk of suicide. Anaemia, hydro-electrolytic disturbances, cardiovascular diseases, gastrointestinal and endocrine dysfunctions may occur as medical complications. The challenge regarding eating disorders is to understand their mechanism of occurrence, in an attempt to prevent them, as well as to treat them so that they do not put the individual's life in danger.

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