Ok so I'm 15, underweight, and I'm not the healthiest eater. I get nervous about eating because I don't want to gain weight. My friends and family tell me all the time that Im too skinny. I'm 5"4 & I weigh 100 lbs. Everyone in my house has been sick and they were having stomach pains, headaches, and sore throats. So somehow I managed to catch it and after I eat something I feel naseous and when I wake up on the morning I'm a little naseous too. I'm also very gassy nd my stomach has been gargling a lot. Do you think these Could all just be apart of the flu or whatever I caught? Please let me know! Your help and concern are greatly appreciated!
I do need to address your weight issue while I'm here especially based on what you have written. Based on your height your are grossly under weight to the point I would call you a borderline anorexic.
In order for our body's to function properly our body's need fuel. Food is the fuel our body's need. To function at it's very best we should weigh in at a proper weight and eat properly. Being underweight is actually more harmful than being slightly overweight.
Our body's are designed to save themselves, when the body does not have what it needs to function it does what it needs to do to survive. To Survive the body will shut down the least need systems first. In underweight people it may be the immune system first, which may be why underweight people are generally so sickly. The body will continue to do so until only the brain the heart, liver and lungs are left. By this time the person is usually in the hospital on life support. The brain is the organ the body wants to save so in order of importance the body shuts down the other organs I listed until only the heart and brain are left.
Am I scarring you? Good! You are anywhere from 20 to 40 pounds underweight depending on your skeletal size. You need to gain weight and do so under a doctors care and supervision.
It is one thing to be thin and in good physical health. From what you have written you are close to being emaciated and in poor to bad health. Your body is sending you signals. It is time to head those signals before it is to late.
I don't know you and I really have no reason to care but I do. You sound like a nice young lady. You need to take care of yourself so we can enjoy your company for as long as you are intended to be with us. [ adviceman49's advice column | Ask adviceman49 A Question ]
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