WEIGHT LOSS AND HOW HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINES CAN HELP IN GAINING WEIGHT

Weight loss may be physiological, due to dieting, exercise, starvation, or the decreased nutritional intake which accompanies old age. -Weight loss of more than 3 kg over 6 months is significant and often indicates the presence of an underlying disease. -Hospital and general practice weight records may be valuable in confirming that weight loss has occurred, as may reweighing patients at intervals, sometimes weight is regained or stabilizes in those with no obvious cause.

Pathological weight loss can be due to psychiatric illness, systemic disease, gastrointestinal causes or advanced disease of many organ systems.

Physiological weight loss can occur in the absence of serious disease in healthy individuals who have changes in physical activity or social circumstances. It may be difficult to be sure of this diagnosis in older patients, when the dietary history may be unreliable, and professional help from a dietitian is often valuable under these circumstances.

PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS: -

Features of anorexia nervosa, bulimia and affective disorders may only be apparent after formal psychiatric input. Alcoholic patients lose weight as a consequence of self-neglect and poor dietary intake. -Depression may cause weight loss.

SYSTEMIC DISEASES

Chronic infections, including tuberculosis recurrent urinary or chest infections, and a range of parasitic and protozoan infections, should be considered. A history of foreign travel, high-risk activities and specific features, such as fever, night sweats, rigors, productive cough and dysuria, must be sought. Promiscuous sexual activity and drug misuse suggest, HIV, related illness, Weight loss is a late feature of disseminated malignancy, but by the time the patient presents, other features of cancer are often present.

CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASES:  such as rheumatoid arthritis, and polymyalgia rheumatica are often associated with weight loss.

CONCLUSION: - There are many Homoeopathic remedies which can help in managing the Weight loss causative factors and help in restoring back the health of the person.