Can Bulimia Cause Ulcers? How?


Question:
Also, if you know, does anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa have the same weight loss effect? I heard that anorexics lose muscle and more weight, but bulimics get ulcers.

Answers:
Bulimia does cause ulcers because when you are constantly vomitting, the juices in your stomach become acid. Simply because you are removing a lot of the nutrients the body needs. I'm not sure about anorexics loosing more muscle and weight. But yes, Bulimia can cause ulcers. And it takes a while for bulimics to lose the weight because sometimes, they will not vomit everything they ate. Maybe 60-70% of it at a time. The reason anorexics lose more is because they are starving themselves from what the body needs in order to function.

Other Answers:
I don't know about causing ulcers, but my wife threw up for three weeks and ruptured an artery in her stomach. She lost 22 pints of blood before they could get it stopped. She had ulcers to begin with.

i had bulemia for 2 yrs and i have had many many physical problems from it. i got a hynernia from it. severe heartburn, i have to take nexium for yrs to repair all of the esophgal damage from the acid i was vomiting up. i had to have my tonsils taken out. so yes ulcers is something u can get from it.

yes. the stomach ahas acid in it and when you throw up that come up the esophagus and burns the tissue. the more you do this the more damage you cause.also, you remove the enamel from the back of the teeth which is likewise unhealthy.



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