Eating disorders: collaboration of psychiatrist with paediatrician gynaecologist

Abstract

Eating disorders are psychosomatic illnesses that significantly affect the patients' somatic condition. Collaboration with a paediatrician particularly involves diagnosing along with ruling out an organic cause as well as realimentation of cachexia that is frequently present.

The role of a gynaecologist is then to examine and treat amenorrhoea that is one of the fundamental symptoms of anorexia nervosa and often occurs in bulimia nervosa as well.

Keywords

• eating disorders
• collaboration
• paediatrician
• gynaecologist.