Another Medical Question?!
Question: Is there a condition where people are underweight but they eat normal? Or is that not possible?
Answers: Is there a condition where people are underweight but they eat normal? Or is that not possible?
Why does everything these days have to be a "condition" or a "disorder"? What you describe is not only possible but normal. And some people are more active so they stay thin all their lives. Every person's metabolism is different, but what you describe is normal.
It's not a condition it's just that they have faster matabolism. You can eat healthy and be underweight without much exercise. some people get all the luck. =]
Sure, the most common being people that have extremely high metabolism. There are other medical conditions where people don't efficiently absorb nutrients that they consume; sort of a gastrointestinal disorder (sorry, don't recall the names of them). I think they are due to an enzyme deficiency of some type. Anyhow, it is not necessarily common for people to eat and eat and not gain weight, but it happens to enough people that it isn't considered a "disorder" in of itself. It would need to be diagnosed as such by a physician prior to considering it a medical issue.
yes there are many conditions, but more info would be needed.
Underweight- a weight lower than normal and proper for the person under consideration. In children, underweight usually reflects slow or delayed development. In adults underweight is usually a sign of some underlying, but undiagnosed, disease condition. When this is corrected, a gain in weight can be expected. A high calorie diet alone will not put on weight if there is some pathological reason why the body cannot absorb and make flesh of the extra food ingested. A loss of weight, particularly a large or sudden loss, should prompt a thorough medical check-up. This is an important symptom of many serious diseases and should not be passed off lightly without a medical examination.
Hyperthyroidism with a heightened basal metabolic rate may result in a person being underweight with increased or normal eating habits. Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa can also account for the inability to gain weight. Another cause would be some malabsorption syndrome. Other medical causes of underweight:
Malnutrition
Reduced appetite
Loss of appetite
Difficulty chewing (see Dental symptoms)
Elderly difficulties - simple problems with shopping or cooking.
Anorexia nervosa
Body dysmorphic disorder
Female athlete syndrome
Failure to thrive
Pyloric stenosis
Excessive dieting
Drug use
Malignancy such as cancer
Various simple reasons for weight loss include:
Poor diet
Increase in exercise or exertion
Dieting
Starvation
Neglect
Anxiety
Aging
Not eating enough
Meal preparation or shopping difficulty - such as in the elderly
Denture difficulties
Loss of appetite - see the various causes of loss of appetite
Athletic training
Mental health disorders
Eating disorder
Anorexia nervosa
Depression
Clinical depression
Grief
Loss of appetite
Anxiety
Certain psychiatric disorders
Substance-related possible causes of weight loss include:
Alcohol abuse
Drug abuse
Amphetamines - cause appetite suppression leading to weight loss.
Some possible digestive conditions causing weight loss:
Chronic digestive infection
Inflammatory bowel disease
Stomach ulcer
Malignancy