Eating Disorders

...ba href=/eating disorder/a/b, that she had bulimia.

Did she?

SCHIAVO: I now believe she did.

With becoming a nurse and listening to doctors and even her family said that she had bulimia.

Her mother came out and stated it to a nurse at one of the medical facilities that Terri had bulimia.

So I believe she had bulimia.

And it sets something else straight about that, about the bulimia.

The medical examiner also stated that after 15 years, he couldn't really tell if she did or didn't.

So he did not rule bulimia out.

KING: Did bulimia have anything to do with the cause of her illness and death?

SCHIAVO: I'm sure it was the cause of her cardiac arrest.

Thogmartin indicated in his autopsy report that his findings were based on 274 external and internal body images but that missing records and documents, missing because Schiavo’s attorney failed to provide them, were a problem in determining what caused Terri's collapse.

Thogmartin said at the news conference about the autopsy and in the autopsy report that there was no evidence of bulimia and the assumption of bulimia presented at the medical malpractice trial had simply been accepted and not challenged.

He said there was absolutely nothing to support the theory of bulimia as presented by Michael's attorneys.

He also ruled out the 15-year fallacy presented by the mainstream media (and Michael Schiavo) that she had sustained a heart attack, saying that her collapse was the result of an "external problem outside of the heart causing the he...

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According to the National ba href=/eating disorder/a/bs Association, the binge-and-purge cycles of bulimia can lead to chemical imbalances that harm major organs and can cause heart failure, the situation in Schiavo's case.

If Terri Schiavo had received treatment for her bulimia, her death might have been prevented.

Dr.

Terry V.

Eagan, medical director and psychiatrist at Casa Palmera, a residential treatment center for ba href=/eating disorder/a/bs in Del Mar, California, says recognition of the serious consequences of ba href=/eating disorder/a/bs can literally save lives.

"Many women put themselves in jeopardy of ending up like Terri Schiavo," says Dr.

Eagan.

"People with bulimia and anorexia alter their body chemistry and can suffer heart attacks or strokes resulting in the same kind of brain damage as Terri." Hundreds of thousands of American women suffer from ba href=/eating disorder/a/bs.

Sufferers often hide their behavior for years and many times do not appear to be "underweight." Family and friends only gradually become suspicious after seeing a pattern of behavior, and by then an individual may already be at great risk.

Casa Palmera's treatment experts recommend observation for the following types of symptoms: * An obsession with food and/or dieting.

* Body-image distortion.

* Use or hiding use of diet pills or laxatives.

* Low self esteem.

* Frequent trips to the bathroom immediately following meals (sometimes accompanied with running water to hide the sound of vomiting).

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