Test # 3 Flashcards
What does purging consist of?
- vomit
- laxatives
- diuretics
- enemas
What does non-purging consist of?
- fast
- exercise
What is the criteria for Binge Eating Disorder?
A. Binge Eating B. Lack of Control C. 3 or more of the following - eating fast - eating until uncomfy - eating when not hungry - eating alone because of embarrassment - disgust, depression, guilt
D. Distress
E. 2 times per week for 6 months.
What are the ways your body shuts down?
- Hypothermia, nothing to keep you warm
- Low blood pressure
- Grow back the peach Fuzz (Lanugo)
- Nutrition Problems
- Vitamin deficiencies (lack of salt & potassium)
What is the criteria for Bulimia (have an emotional reaction)?
A. Binge: Eating and lack of control
B. Recurrent/inappropriate compensatory
C. Self-evaluation based on weight.
Define Eating Disorders:
Have a severe disturbance in eating patterns.
What is the criteria for Anorexia?
A. refusal to maintain normal body weight
- refuse to have a healthy weight.
- significantly underweight
B. Fear of being fat.
C. Distorted perception of shape & size.
D. (Women) the absence of 3 or more periods in a row.
Anorexia Nervosa Type: Restricting
Very specific caloric intake or refuse to eat at all.
- Shuffle food around.
- cut small
- eat slow
- count calories
What is the criteria for substance abuse?
- 1 or more in 12 months
a. Recurrent failures in major roles
b. Use when physically hazardous (pilots who drink, drinking and driving, sharing needles)
c. Recurrent legal problems - related to the drug use (DUIs, possession charges)
d. Use despite social/interpersonal problems.
What is the criteria for Substance Dependence?
- 3 or more in 12 months
a. Tolerance
b. Withdrawals
c. Larger amounts or longer time - “I’ll just have one” they take more than they intended to when they were sober.
d. Unsuccessful at quitting/reducing
e. TIME - getting, using, recovering (spending a great deal of time obtaining, using or recovering from the addiction)
f. Social Withdrawal - give up interpersonal relations, stuff they loved to do.
g. Continued use despite physical/psychological problems (meth addists that love their teeth and hair; drinkers who use their liver)
What is the criteria for Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome - delirium tremens (know 1 or 2 of these)
- Disorientation (time, person, place)
- Vivid hallucinations - small furry animals - snakes, rats, roaches
- Fear in which these hallucinatory objects start changing in shape, size or color.
- Extremely suggestible - in their hallucinations you can freak them out, make them hallucinate anything.
- Tremors - hands, tongue, lips (visible to others)
- Sweating, fever, rapid breathing
will go on half a week to a week if it goes untreated 10% die once they start withdrawal.
What is alcohol amnesic?
memory problem - memory deficits (I haven’t drank for a while, but I don’t remember what I did last week)
What is opium?
Morphine, Loritab, heroine, codeine, oxycotton
- morphine has been used in war.
- Super addictive which is why they are controlled.
Effects:
- initial rush
- vomiting, nausea
- chill - withdrawn, lethargic (4-6 hours)
- Physiological cravings - sick because you don’t have it - teary eyes, breath rapidly, chills, cramps, tremors, insomnia, runny nose.
- Withdrawal symptoms go away with in 4-8 days.
- After withdrawal is over your tolerance goes back down - if you can go all the way through the withdrawal process it doesn’t take as much the next time (you body resets)
Social effects - people lie, steal, AIDS, heroine babies, prostitution.
Unique thing about Alcohol
see 3 animals
What is speed?
- Speed is an appetite supressant.
- When taken a lot causes depression
- Chronic Sense of fatigue
- Take to much it’s lethal
- High blood pressure, sleeplessness
