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I just found out about someone who abuses laxatives…?

  • Posted on August 4, 2010 at 12:17 am

I am close with a mother who just came to me with her daughter’s issue.
Her daughter has been struggling with anorexia for years and has finally recovered. I have seen her and she looks good and with lack of a better word…”normal.” So, it seemed like she was doing a little better.
Well, recently her mom was quite distraught over the fact that her daughter has been consuming hundreds of laxatives each day. The thing is, is that she restricts a little then I guess binges and eats a lot. After that, her daughter consumes about 200 pills in one day to get rid of the food she binged on.
I have personally recovered from an eating disorder, which is why her mom is coming to me. But honestly I need help with this.
I know about everything that happens to the colon and informed her mom of this but I have no advice on how to get her daughter to stop and get on a regular meal plan. (I mean is this serious enough to place her in inpatient treatment or can she do it on her own?)

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