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Term paper...of a teenaged female, who reports feeling healthy, denies feeling fat, and has normal menstrual periods but has evidenced a 20 lb. weight loss. In making differential diagnosis for mental and eating disorders, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) version 10 and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders-IV are the major diagnostic tools used worldwide. Both of the diagnostic criteria consider the following as definitive diagnosis for anorexia nervosa: body mass index (BMI) of less than 17.5 or body weight less than 85% of expected, fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, denial of the illness despite obvious thinness, and hormonal changes resulting to amenorrhea (Gentile, 2010, p. 186). All...
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How stress is related to infertility (the psychological and physical/biological issues/effects of stress on women)...the body, or it may be indirectly affected by the different elements or factors coming from the environment that first affect other human organs or tissues, that may have some sort of an indirect regulating or supportive association with the reproductive organs (fig 1). Often it has also been observed that “cultural, occupational, and many other behavioural differences can modify or sensitize the stress response and the ensuing change in reproductive function” (Negro-Vilar, 1993, 61). Various experimental data on human beings suggest that often chronic symptoms of stress may lead to ‘anovulation’ or ‘amenorrhea’ in women (Barnea and Tal, 1991); while also causing decreased sperm count and change in morphology amongst...
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Physical Affects of Eating Disorders..., amenorrhea and low body temperature. (Gold, 1990)
Anorexia nervosa remains a disorder that primarily affects young women, with onset generally between the ages of 12 and 25 years. Epidemiologic studies in the United States and Europe have documented an increased incidence in young women. However, numerous cases of new onset anorexia in elderly men and women have been reported. (Gold, 1990)
The prevalence of anorexia varies between 2 and 5 percent among adolescent and young adult women. The disorder carries a mortality rate of 5 percent in the first two years. Among untreated patients, mortality can approach 20 percent. A perfectionist lifestyle, punctuated by one or more performance-related stresses, predisposes to...
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Alterations during Menopause...
Alterations during Menopause
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Q.1 What would you like to ask this patient about her symptoms?
Erratic menstrual cycle which is characterized by more than two months skipped periods with an interval of amenorrhea of >60 days is a sign of late menopausal transition (Brashers, 2006, p. 350). In relation to the patient’s initial history, I would like to ask her whether or not she has experienced any form of vaginal infection. Basically, the presence of vaginal infection caused by staphylococcus aureus could explain the presence of perivaginal itching. It is also necessary to ask the patient the description of her vaginal discharge.
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Hollys Risk for the Female Athlete Triad...Case Study What factors increase Holly’s risk for the female athlete triad? One of the factors that influences Holly’s risk for the female athlete triad is her disordered eating patterns. As Holly has been told she cannot make the track team and weigh more than 100 lbs she has been attempting to lose weight with a restrictive diet. This also has contributed to the second factor contributing to Holly’s risk, namely Amenorrhea (not eating enough enough). The final risk factor is osteoporosis because of Holly’s poor nutrition (‘What is the Triad?’).
2. Explain her increased risk of osteoporosis, stress fractures, and injuries.
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Amenorrhea... The 30-year old female is suffering from secondary menorrhea because she has previously experienced menstruation only that they were irregular. Secondary amenorrhea is diagnosed when a woman fails to experience menstruation for six consecutive months or more in the absence of pregnancy. Besides pregnancy, breastfeeding and menopause do not cause secondary amenorrhea. Secondary amenorrhea is not harmful and is treatable in most cases. The conditions underlying secondary amenorrhea have to be treated to ensure patient’s overall health.
Pathophysiology and causes of amenorrhea
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Amenorrhea in Adolescent Girls...Amenorrhea in Adolescent Girls
The absence of spontaneous menses in a female at adolescent age is known as amenorrhea. There could be several causes to the condition of amenorrhea. The paper attempts to explore the possible causes of amenorrhea in adolescents.
Currently, 98% of girls reach menarche by the age 15. It is appropriate to look at its causes when a female has failed to menstruating by that time. Time gap between thelarche to menarche is 2.5 years for white girls and little higher for black girls. That means if 3 years have gone after thelarche, it is necessary to evaluate the reasons. It has been gathered that 75% girls...
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Menstruation Disorders...; the features involved in the menstrual cycle, the risk factors to the disorders and discuss the disorders in menstruation as well as their management and complications involved.
Keywords: menstruation, menstrual cycle, disorder, complications, dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia, Amenorrhea, Oligomenorrhea
Introduction
A menstrual disorder will affect the woman normal menstrual cycle, and the disorders include painful menses, abnormally heavy bleeding and lack of menses. Normal menstruation is bound to occur during the years of puberty and menopause. Also referred to as “period” entails a process where blood flow from the uterus to the cervix and out of the vagina. Some women will experience emotional and physical symptoms...
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Amenorrhea in Adolescent Girls...Amenorrhea in Adolescent Girls Affiliation: Discuss possible underlying causes of amenorrhea in the adolescent female.
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SECONDARY AMENORRHEA...SECONDARY AMENORRHEA Secondary Amenorrhea There are various conditions that affect females. One of such conditions is amenorrhea. There are two types of amenorrhea. They include primary and secondary amenorrhea. Primary amenorrhea is when menses fails to take place at the expected time. In secondary amenorrhea, the menses have occurred before, but fails for six months or more (Newson, 2013). The prevalence of these diseases has been shown to be around one percent of women (Newson, 2013). However, secondary cases are more common in women over 20 years of age. There are various causes of secondary cases. Pregnancy has been shown to be the primary factor leading to the development of secondary amenorrhea (Newson, 2013). The paper... will...
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