How is Severe Eating Disorder Treated?

Eating disorders are classified into anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa can be treated through physical adjuvant therapy, psychotherapy, and psychopharmacotherapy.

1. Physical Adjuvant Therapy: This helps anorexia nervosa patients resume adequate nutritional intake, thereby improving severe malnutrition. For patients with severe illness, difficulty eating, significant weight loss, and non-compliance with treatment, nasogastric feeding or intravenous infusion of high-nutrient solutions may be used.

2. Psychotherapy includes behavioral therapy and supportive therapy.

1. Behavioral Therapy: Its goal is to ensure nutritional rehabilitation and weight gain, providing a foundation for further psychological recovery. Depending on the related abnormal behaviors of different patients, correcting abnormal behaviors often involves preventing patients from refusing to eat, hiding food, vomiting, exercising excessively, and using harmful substances such as laxatives, diuretics, and weight-loss drugs.

2. Supportive Therapy: Acknowledge their difficulties and efforts, support their pursuit of life, and ensure that treatment can bring positive changes.

3. Psychopharmacotherapy: Antipsychotic drugs such as Lorazepam Tablets and Olanzapine Tablets.

1. Physical Adjuvant Therapy: The main purpose is to correct water-electrolyte disturbances caused by purging behaviors, with hypokalemia due to vomiting and diarrhea being the most common. On the basis of controlling these behaviors, oral potassium or intravenous potassium infusion can be administered.

2. Behavioral Therapy: The goal of behavioral modification therapy is to abstain from binge eating and purging, correct nutritional metabolism disorders, and restore a normal life rhythm.

3. Psychopharmacotherapy: Medications such as Fluoxetine Hydrochloride Capsules.