What is the nursing intervention of anorexia?

Answer 1

Through treatment, anorexics can get better and return to a normal, healthy lifestyle. For not-as-severe cases, intervention usually is food therapy, forced (healthy) weight gain, regain of organ health, along with therapy mentally. This could be through conseling, medications for depression, ect. For more severe cases, intense therapy would be conducted. An example could be feeding through a tube (directly into the stomach) or an IV, along with food counseling, forced (healthy) weight gain, regain of organ health. The mental therapy would probably be more extensive, possibly even involving family members or close friends to show a rebuilt support system to the anorexia sufferer.

Answer 2

It depends a lot on the individual. The care needed by a single person needs to be specially designed to fit them the best. It can range from therapy (group, family, friends, sessions, personal, ect.) to the need for IVs or feeding tubes to medications to hospital stays to nutritional therapy and more depnding on the individual.