Pediatria pre prax 6/2014
Eating disorders: collaboration of psychiatrist with paediatrician and gynaecologist
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.
