Systems Affected by Eating Disorders
The image summarizes the systems that eating disorders can affect and what these changes entail for the body.
Additional Information
1. In eating disorders, a patient can be restored back to health with weight restoration. However, there is something called a “critical window” for a human’s development. If a patient’s health is damaged during this window, there may be permanent affects to the body.
2. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate compared to other psychiatric illnesses.
3. Hospitalization is required when the eating disorder becomes a life threatening situation.
