Medical Complications of Eating Disorders in Adolescents and Children

Contemporary medical health issues pertinent to eating disorder treatment  include gluten enteropathy or Celiac Disease, food allergies, irritable bowel syndrome and others. They have all become commonly recognized conditions and many people opt to try new diets based on their own suspicions they may be manifesting one or more of them. Unfortunately, they often do so without professional consultation or testing and few clinicians that they see understand the interface of eating disorders and the associated food modifications inherent to these illnesses. A modified approach is needed for eating...Read more disorder treatment and the lifelong commitment to dietary change when the co-morbid illness is verified. We will review these co-morbid illnesses and how they impact treatment of the individual with an eating disorder.
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Learning Objectives

• Differentiate treatment for those with ED’s and verified co-morbid illness
• Understand the essentials of each co-morbid illness including proper testing and diagnosis
• Understand the interface of each co-morbid illness and the eating disorder

Thursday, June 20, 2019

11:30 AM CDT - 01:30 PM CDT