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Sree Nanda, an 18-year-old girl from Kerala suffering from the eating disorder anorexia, passed away on Sunday at the Thalassery co-operative hospital where she was undergoing treatment after she abstained from proper food for almost six months. Dr Nagesh Manohar Prabhu, a consultant physician, said that Sree Nanda was brought to the hospital around 12 days ago and was directly admitted to the ICU. “She was hardly 24 kgs, bedridden.
Her sugar levels, sodium, and BP were low. She was out on ventilator support. But her condition did not improve, and she succumbed,” he told ANI.
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder, which is characterised by a distorted body image and an intense fear of gaining weight. This leads to restrictive eating habits causing significant weight loss. According to doctors, anorexia is an eating disorder causing people to be obsessed about weight and what they eat.
Under this condition, even when people are thin, the person affected thinks they are overweight and will not eat. According to the family and doctors, the condition persisted for about five to six months. Sree Nanda was hardly eating anything, and she hid it from the family.
About five months back, she was taken to the hospital, and the doctors advised that she needed to eat and asked the family to get a psychiatric consultation. Sree Nanda used to hide the food her parents gave her, and survived on hot water, as per her relatives She was taken to Kozhikode Medical College Hospital two months back, and tests were done. Doctors advised the family to feed her and to get psychiatric consultation.
This eating disorder is caused when people get obsessed about their weight and what they eat. It can trigger eating disorders in humans by a combination of genetic and environmental risk factors, as per a 2016 study by Columbia University Medical Centre. It has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disease of 8-15 per cent.
With inputs from ANI.
