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ulcers
can bulimic people get ulcers???
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you bet, matter of fact they are extremely likley to get ulcers. with bulimia along with the food that comes up acid from your stomache does as well. that acid hitting your esophagus is even scarier, in time you can even get a hole in it. If you think a hole in your stomache lining will hurt imagine one in your throat and esophagus. If you get one there theyll put a tube in your throat or put a sergical drain in your stomache that they will use to feed you. If you have HBO watch thier special documentary called THIN. I'ts extremely informative.
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You can get ulcers in your mouth a stomach. Being bulimic increases those chances, along with the chances of having a heart attack, hair falling out, losing all of your teeth due to infection, and many other gruesome side effects. if youa re bulimic, you need to get help soon, or it could turn deadly.
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Actually, bulemic people are more likely to get ulcers because eating stimulates the production of stomach acids and inducing vomiting takes those acids into the esophagus where the tissues are not meant to handle acids. You can get an esophageal ulcer from your food coming up. People (like me) with reflux can get bad ulcers that way. Then there are the mouth ulcers also and the tooth rot. Usually with an esophageal ulcer you'll feel pain behind your breastbone. Sometimes you'll have trouble swallowing.
You can get stomach and duodenal ulcers (first part of the small intestine as it leaves the stomach) also from stimulating acid with food and then getting rid of the food.
That being said, the normal mechanism for getting a stomach ulcer is by being infected with the H. pylori bacteria and it can be easily treated with antibiotics.
I hope you/your friend/whomever doesn't get an ulcer because they can be serious.
Sabine
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Anyone can get an ulcer so yeah, that includes bulimics.
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ANYONE can get an ulcer, but if you're talking about a mouth ulcer, yes, vomiting causes those. It's a yes to stomach ulcers as well. Here's something on peptic ulcers:
"A peptic ulcer refers to an area of the stomach, or the tube that leads away from the stomach, which becomes eroded by stomach acid. Peptic ulcers can be serious and need immediate attention if you are vomiting blood or passing digested blood in your stools."
And here are more effects of bulimia:
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