Pregorexia
Pregorexia is not a formally recognised medical diagnosis, but the term is coined by society and refers to a woman’s drive to control pregnancy weight gain through extreme dieting and exercise.
The restriction in calories may for a number of reasons including:
It is important individuals that are showing signs of pregorexia get help as it can cause damage to both the pregnant woman and the fetus.
Pregorexia and an inadequate nutritional intake during pregnancy can be very dangerous to both mother and baby. It can cause birth defects, brain damage and even miscarriage, therefore help should be sort as soon as it is suspected.
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Our team are trained in all eating disorders and eating disorder behaviour. We give immediate access to a multidisciplinary team of mental health nurses, psychologists and dietitians to ensure the individual is offered continual support and reviews throughout the pregnancy, ensuring recovery and a health birth. Although pregorexia is very serious, it can be treated. The earlier you or your loved one get treatment for the eating disorder, the less likely the baby or mother will suffer side effects and the baby will be born healthy without complications.
If you would like to find out what treatment our team of mental health nurses, psychologists, dietitians can provide, please contact us.
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We believe in continuously providing holistic, patient-centred treatments which promote physical and mental wellbeing to increase resilience. The needs and wellbeing of patients is at the centre of everything we do. We are passionate about helping people and their families achieve their goals by providing them with patient-centred therapy that is passionate, caring and knowledgeable. We are passionate about sharing our knowledge to help educate patients, families and the wider public about eating disorders.
We believe in providing patients with evidence-based treatments to enable recovery of their eating disorder. We are committed to providing results-focused practice to ensure we deliver patients with the goals they want to achieve. Importantly, we believe results are best achieved with an educative approach and we work with our patients to achieve their goals together. We also believe that follow up after treatment is essential to ensure patients’ needs are being met and that their results are maximised.
We believe in helping patients develop a healthy relationship to food, and their body. Our service enables patients to set their own feeding goals in order to achieve a healthy weight and independently manage meals. We are passionate about helping patients’ understanding of disordered eating, and promoting mental wellness in order to tackle the behaviour.
We believe our services should be approachable and accessible. We give people the best chances of recovery by providing them with early access to assessments and interventions that are provided by approachable staff in an outpatient setting.
We believe to maximise people’s recovery we should provide them with immediate access and to our specialist multidisciplinary team of professionals that will work with them holistically to achieve the best possible results for patients and families.
We believe that anyone should be able to access immediate treatment for an eating disorder, regardless of their financial situation. Our treatment is priced as a total care package that is agreed with each client, tailored to the individual with a flexible pricing policy. We believe in offering finance to people who may benefit from this.
We achieve the best possible results for eating disorder sufferers with a range of problems and conditions by providing patients with early access to assessment and intervention.
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