What if do not want to have
Educational Program Health / / December 19, 2019
"You have to eat less," - bequeathed to the great Maya Plisetskaya. But sometimes there is a question: "What could be less?" You are moving into the mind of cake, ice cream, steak, salad with caramelized chicken, plain old sandwich - and none of the settlements, of course, a delicious list stomach is not ekaet.
Why I do not want to eat
Reasons for the lack of appetite can be a lot: from quite friendly to threatening serious trouble.
Fatigue
Brutal. You may not be aware of this even, and the body is well aware of: the forces at the end, they need to be protected. And disconnects not the most important at the moment, but energy-consuming functions, including digestion.
SARS and infectious diseases in the acute phase
The causes of loss of appetite in general terms the same as in the previous paragraph: the body is too focused on the active anti-virus to waste energy on something not very current. Here will win - and then go.
Weather
Known fact that in the summer heat is much less hungryEffects of Heat on Appetite
Than gray autumn or cold winter nights. The fact that food is a part of the body's thermoregulatory system: when we cool, we strive to consume more calories to convert them into heat. In the heat of the additional "sugrevu" body does not need, and therefore neglects food.Mood
Someone lost your appetite because of nerves, someone on the contrary, seizes stress. Some common to all algorithm linking emotions and eating behavior, scientists have not yet discovered. But it is clearly established that the desire to eat depends on moodExamination of emotion-induced changes in eating: A latent profile analysis of the Emotional Appetite Questionnaire, With each person, this relationship is individual.
Mental disorders
In contrast to the banal bad mood, clinical depressionDepression Overview It causes a loss of appetite in almost 100% of cases. This disorder is associated with an accompanying decrease in overall metabolic rate.
Another fairly common failure - anorexia nervosaAnorexia nervosa. So doctors call mental eating disorder, caused by a desperate fear of weight gain.
endocrine disorders
If the thyroid gland produces less hormonesThe lowdown on thyroid slowdownThan necessary (this condition is called hypothyroidism), appetite decreased significantly.
Cardiovascular problems
deterioration of appetite - a common symptomPancreatic exocrine insufficiency in patients with chronic heart failure and its possible association with appetite loss chronic heart failure.
Viral hepatitis and other liver damage
Liver - one of the most important elements in the digestive system: it is in her blood comes from nutrients, recycled stomach and intestines. Liver sorts to do, cleanses the toxins and only then let food into the bloodstream. In viral hepatitisViral Hepatitis and other diseases of the body ceases to cope with their functions. In order not to overload the pribolevshy liver and give it a chance to recover, the body reduces the production of hormones responsible for the appearance of appetite.
Smoking and other causes
Food poisoning, smoking, The response to a particular drug, the first trimester of pregnancy, gallstones, gastroenteritis, various immune disorders, Alzheimer's disease and so on up to a hidden cancer - all these can doAppetite - decreased you indifferent food.
Why return appetite
And maybe, well, it? Some specifically limit themselves to sit on hard diets only dream of cakes - but these cakes you just do not want. Conveniently! But rejoice to the absence of appetite, nutritionists do not recommend. If indifference to food persists for more than two weeks, it can lead to a lack of nutrients and overall exhaustion of the body.
Other long-term consequences of loss of appetite depends on the reasons that have caused such a state. What are these reasons and what they will lead in the end, can only establish a qualified physician.
What to do if you want to not have
First of all, do not panic. As Layfhaker wrote above, a temporary loss of appetite often cause quite harmless from the health point of view things.
Try to reduce the pace of life, normalize sleep schedule, Learn to relax, let yourself small pleasures: a walk, shopping, an opportunity to just lie under a blanket with a book. Most likely, the desire to screw borscht or a cup of coffee with biscuits soon you'll be back.
But if indifference to food lasts for two weeks or more, or is accompanied by rapid weight loss, it is necessary to look at the crash. The optimal way to do this - to see a doctor and pass all the tests assigned to them. Among them, the most likely to be:
- Complete blood count, which will give information on the state of the organism as a whole.
- Analysis for thyroid hormones.
- Tests for hepatitis.
- Urinalysis for maintenance medications.
In addition, the doctor will probably ask you questions about when the problems started with gusto, how much weight you've lost, which is why, in your opinion, there was a failure of the food.
Depending on the results of the first analyzes of additional research can be assigned: ultrasound, ECG, X-ray, MRI. This will help to discover the true cause of loss of appetite and effectively adjust it.
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