Loss in weight

Weight reduction is wanted in many cases: if you want to lose weight, eat less or move more in order to achieve a negative calorie balance - then melt away the pounds. Sometimes, however, also fails unintentionally appetite. Is this over a longer period the case or there is set a weight loss even though you are eating normally, a disease can hide behind the weight loss.

To weight a person loses whenever he consumes more calories than he takes with himself. In many cases, the weight loss is intentional: To slim down, many their diet to less calorie-rich food around and move around more. Often enough the falls the dieters not easy.

Others, however, lose weight, even though they do not want to lose weight. They simply have no appetite. In short phases that everyone knows. Grief, stress, an up-withdrawing infection - usually the reason is obvious, and rarely shows the scale for such episodes more than one or two pounds of weight loss.

Keeps the appetite disturbance, however, longer or resumes from you, even though the appetite is normal or even increased, behind it can hide a serious cause.
There are basically two forms of involuntary weight loss: Some people take off because they feel little appetite. The others lose weight even though they eat normally or even more than before. In some cases, both come together.

The following reasons may be behind the weight loss:

Infections: In chronic and acute infections of appetite is often reduced. Addition, they often symptoms such as lassitude and weakness. In some cases, these symptoms are the first signs that something is wrong in the body. Infectious diseases with particularly strong weight loss are as HIV and tuberculosis.

Gastro-intestinal infections, ulcers, gastric mucosal or inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis) can cause the patient eats less due to nausea or pain. For other gastrointestinal diseases is the fact that the nutrients can not be absorbed sufficiently from the intestine into the body. This is the case for example in case of diarrhea, but also in chronic inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's disease.
Eating Disorders: When eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa (anorexia) or bulimia addiction (bulimia), the matter is again different. In the case of anorexia sufferers must - at least initially - to fight against hunger. Because they eat very little and often excessive exercising, there is a weight loss. Bulimic again succumb repeatedly binge eating. Artificially induced vomiting prevented but that they increase. Sometimes they take off even.

Medicines & Drugs: Sometimes a medication also spoil the appetite. These include, for example, the heart medication digitalis, certain asthma drugs, medicines for ADHD, antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs. A similar weight loss can occur in people who use drugs. This includes - although he has a lot of calories - even alcohol.