The general aim of treatment is the correction of malnutrition and psychological disorder patients. First attempts to achieve rapid weight loss and recovery of the food habits, because it may involve greater risk of death. But full recovery is not the same weight with the cure. Anorexia is a mental illness and should be treated as such. Treatment should be based on three aspects:
* Early detection of disease: knowledge of symptoms by primary care physicians and the protocols that define the criteria that physicians should observe.
* Coordination between health services are involved: psychiatry, endocrinology and paediatrics.
* Follow the clinic after the patient has been discharged, a routine visit. Tended length of hospitalization, which is disconnected from the environment can disrupt the normal development of teenagers. They therefore recommended that, wherever possible, outpatient treatment.
Entrance to the medical center is required when:
* Malnutrition is very serious and there are changes in vital signs
* If family relationships are not sustainable and better for isolating patients
* When exacerbate mental disorders.
outpatient treatment is effective when:
* This early detection
* No episodes of bulimia or vomiting and there was the family’s commitment to cooperation.
In this way we began treatment with feedback, which sometimes can cause indigestion, because the body is not accustomed to eating. Over time you reset the biological and menstruation.
After treatment begins psychologically, who tried to restructure the rational ideas, eliminate misunderstandings, increasing self-esteem and develop social skills and communication between the patient and his environment. Families should take an active role in treatment because sometimes trigger for this disease is found in it and, moreover, must continue recovery at home.