Increased appetite. Causes in women before menstruation, during ovulation, disease, gastritis, parasites, cancer, pregnancy. Signs of what to do, how to deal

Increased appetite does not always mean a desire simply to satisfy his hunger. Often, the cause is a disease that carry more harmful organisms women than overweight, from a large consumption of food. Therefore, it is important to know what kind of disease is characterized by increased appetite, and any additional symptoms occur at the same time.

The main signs of increased appetite in women

Before you determine which disease is caused by an increase in hunger, it is necessary to determine whether the increased appetite for sure. Perhaps this feature of an organism that requires a large consumption of food.

Signs of increased appetite, as diseases:

• Changes in weight. A woman can not only gain extra weight, but also to dump them.
• Despite the large amount of food consumed, it does not increase energy. Feeling of tiredness and irritability even during the morning hours.
• The desire to eat does not pass, even at night, which affects the quality of sleep.
• Rumbling in the stomach is present in almost all the time.
• Excessive sweating in the cool weather.
• After a meal, even a large portion, the feeling of hunger is not fully reversible. Heartburn can appear.
• A woman can destroy almost all the stocks in the refrigerator for 1 sitting.
• Violation defecation process and increase the gas in the intestines.
• It is impossible to carry out without food for more than 3 hours.

To determine that increased appetite is not a disease, you need to be tested for the content of leptin (the hormone responsible for energy metabolism in the body). If there are deviations, the therapist will be assigned medication for its normalization. This will restore your appetite.

Why increased appetite in women?

Women may experience a feeling of hunger of the 2nd main reasons: the stomach or intestine send signals the need ingestion or body lacks energy, it is replenished only through food. Next, consider the factors provoking the development of the main reasons.

Diabetes

Increased appetite (cause women often lie in the violation of the endocrine system) can be caused by diabetes. In this disease the glucose from the blood is not absorbed by the body.

Sugar is needed to produce energy therefrom.

Since stocks are not replenished, the brain requires a greater consumption of food, but a sense of saturation does not occur. Therefore, hunger is always present.

Thyroid problems

Malfunction of the thyroid gland is accompanied by strong and frequent hunger. Body regulates metabolic processes in the body. acceleration of metabolism may occur during operation of abuse. As a result, all the absorbed food will be quickly processed, but the feeling of fullness will not. As a result, the body will require a new portion of food.

bad dream

A healthy person should sleep a day for at least 7 hours. During this period, the body is completely resting and recovering. Also, there is production of hormones responsible for appetite: leptin and ghrelin (stimulates appetite). When a person is not getting enough sleep, there is a failure.

Eat the food is not completely digested, the body is not saturated, which causes rapid hunger.

Low blood sugar

Lowering blood sugar also accompanied by increased appetite. Due to a lack of glucose the body gets less energy. To replenish it requires brains eating. But as long as the sugar level comes back to normal, a feeling of saturation will not occur.

when ovulation

Increased appetite (cause in women may be related to hormonal changes) can be maintained only during ovulation. Upon completion, the urge to eat comes back to normal.

This change to the food based on the fact that the body is prepared for carrying a child, and begins to advance to restock.

During this period, reduced quantity of sugar in the blood and decreases the amount of iodine and potassium. Therefore, when a woman ovulation more I want sweets and salty foods.

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)

During PMS (there for 2-14 days before menstruation) in women there is an increased feeling of hunger, which is terminated after the start of menstruation. This is due to the hormonal failure.

It prepares the body reserves of energy and vitamins for the normal course of pregnancy, and also creates a kind of airbag. Since when is not the occurrence of conception there is menstruation, and in this period a woman loses blood with nutrients.

severe stress

In the nervous system during stress and depression is in decline, the body begins to demand the production of the hormone of happiness.

The easiest and fastest way to get it - it's food. Therefore, during this period to eat more sweets and junk food, which is a pleasure.

parasites

Parasites, which are located in the digestive tract, consume nutrients from human food. feeling of fullness after eating, coming for a while. And also there is a need to increase the volume portions. When parasitic infestations desire to eat there at night.

Appetite during pregnancy

During pregnancy, a woman experiences increased hunger. In the first trimester of this is due to hormonal changes. The body tries to provide the embryo with all necessary materials.

Therefore, depending on whether any useful elements is missing, the taste preferences of the future mother changing. On the 2nd and 3rd trimester, increased appetite, as food should be enough for normal maintenance of life of the organism mother and child.

Frequent hunger for gastritis

Constant hunger gastritis occurs only at the initial stage of the disease. At this time, the gallbladder releases an unlimited number of gastric juice, which causes an increase in appetite.

Sometimes a woman can eat more not because of the constant feeling of hunger, but because of the pain in the stomach. At the initial stage of the disease, reduces food drink pain symptom. But over time, it ceases to help.

Dehydration

Increased appetite may occur in women due to dehydration. The reason is the fact that the signal of the need to take food or quench your thirst, there is virtually a part of the brain. For failures of the body, the wrong signal about hunger can be sent.

Excessive alcohol consumption

Drinking alcohol affects brain function. He starts sending false signals about the lack of food, produce more of the hormone causes appetite.

Additionally, alcohol causes dehydration.

But as the operation at this time it is broken, instead of a signal of a lack of fluid, there is a feeling of hunger. When saturation occurs, delayed brain sends this pulse.

in oncology

When the cancer process of increasing hunger observed in rare cases. If the tumor is localized in the brain responsible for appetite, it can not attack or a feeling of fullness will be sent false signals about the lack of food. Also cancer is sometimes accompanied by a decrease in blood sugar levels, it also provokes an increased appetite.

other causes

There are less dangerous reasons for the increase in appetite, which do not require medical treatment.

These include:

1. Sedentary lifestyle It can lead to the disorder of the brain. And he will send constant signals about the lack of food.
   
2. Wrong breakfast or lack of it. Do not make up in the morning the body reserves the right, he can during the day to signal hunger.
3. Diet made up incorrectly. If the menu is not drawing the body's need to be taken into account in all the nutrients, the signals of hunger will be permanent.
4. At high brain activity (Exams, mental work) requires more energy. Therefore, the feeling of hunger appears faster.
5. Most physical activity. At this time also increased power consumption. To fill his need to consume more food.
6. Refusal of nicotine. Often, replacing a bad habit of getting food. The woman at the time, which usually go to smoke, starts to settle on the food.
7. some medications have such side effects as increased appetite during ingestion.
8. The habit to eat food while watching TV. Therefore, when you turn on your favorite movie, your body, on the reflex level, begins to secrete hormones causing appetite.
9. Overfeeding in childhood. The organism used to eat frequently and in large quantities. Therefore, the brain grew up, also requires the use of food in large quantities.

These causes can be eliminated independently, without reference to the therapist. The main thing in this case not to confuse them with the disease. If after removing the cause, hunger remains, necessary examination and medication.

Symptoms for which you need to see a doctor

Increased appetite (cause in women can be hormonal or pathological nature) may signal the presence of disease. Depending on the associated symptoms, you can determine which disease is caused by increased appetite.

Diseases accompanied by an increase in appetite:

Disease	symptoms
Gastritis	pain in the stomach, which are amplified without a second meal; instability stool (diarrhea and constipation are replaced); nausea; after a fatty meal present heartburn and vomiting; frequent rumbling, accompanied by increased gas production in the intestine.
Stomach cancer	decrease in weight; a feeling of heaviness in the stomach and overcrowding; pain in the stomach; food is used without much pleasure; violation stool (diarrhea and constipation); temperature rise; rapid fatigue after rest, always want to sleep.
Brain cancer	severe headaches; nausea, vomiting which ends; inappropriate behavior, may be accompanied by aggression; hallucinations (auditory, visual); bad speech; strong change in taste.
worm infestation	pain all over the abdomen; weight loss; Saliva released without meals; nausea with vomiting accompaniment; diarrhea (it can detect parasites) or absence of stool; fatigue and drowsiness; in the anus, at night, itching may occur.
Diabetes	I want to drink a lot; frequent visits to the toilet for emptying the bladder; from the patient, perhaps odor nuances with acetone; itching and redness of the palms; blurred vision; increase or decrease in body weight (depending on the type of disease); swelling of the extremities.
Reduced sugar	clammy sweat; limb tremor; itching of the genitals; frequent urination; constantly thirsty.
Thyroid disease	failure of the menstrual cycle; a sharp decline in weight; shakiness of hands; eyes bulge; food is digested very quickly; Part of the process of defecation; fluctuations in mood and anxiety; increase in heart rate and increase in pressure; even visually, you can determine the increase in cancer;
Stress	man eats all the time while awake, without interruption; more choose unhealthy foods (ice cream, chips, hamburgers; overeating occurs under strong vomiting (stomach gets rid of excess food), but thereafter continued use products; heartache.
Anemia	Blackouts; easy work even causes shortness of breath; persistent dizziness. pale skin; fast fatiguability; reduction in weight.

These diseases require medical treatment, they do not pass on their own. Initially, you need to visit a therapist. After the initial examination will be assigned to the further diagnosis and the treating specialist (gastroenterologist, psychologist or oncologist).

Especially the reduction of elevated appetite in women

If a strong hunger is a symptom of the disease, then eliminate it does not require medication. When the cause of the pathology is, that without its removal increased appetite persists.

Ways to combat hunger:

• Check the menu and remove products that do not generate saturation, but are high-calorie. Food should be rich in mineral elements.
  
• Rate how great dependence on food. If there was a habit for a long time, you should not drastically change the diet. Everything should be done gradually, without causing stress in the body.
• A woman should understand that the food needed to replenish energy stores and not for pleasure.
• It is necessary to regularly clean the body of accumulated toxins.
• Before use, food drink 150-200 ml of water. It dulls hunger and are not allowed to eat a lot of products. And also help determine whether there is really like, or if it was a malfunction of the brain, and the required liquid.
• You can not rush in the process of eating. It should be well chewed. To feel satiety, not overeating.
• During the meal, you can not be distracted by extraneous things.
• Stop seizing the problem and not the front of the monitor or TV.
• Meal feeding on small plates. Food should be a little hot, then the feeling of fullness comes quickly.
• Increase physical activity (sports, swimming, yoga). This will help burn calories and distract from the meal.
• When the appetite after 60-90 min after the main meal, not to suppress it with water or hamburger. You can eat an apple or banana.
• To pay tribute to the sleep process.

If increased hunger caused by pregnancy, the better eating habits to adjust to the gynecologist or nutritionist. Since at this time it is important to good nutrition. Excess food will lead to obesity mother and child in utero that affect the health of both.

Diagnostics

When increased hunger caused by the disease, it is necessary to get a complete examination to determine the cause. After recovery, appetite usually returns to normal on their own. In some cases, you may need the help of a nutritionist (to reduce dialed kilogram).

Initially, the therapist points out when there was a symptom and what other symptoms accompany the increased appetite.

Visual inspection and study cards on past illnesses. A woman needs to pass urine, feces and blood. With their help determine the amount of glucose, hormones, and the probability of cancer. As well as the state of the digestive tract.

For more accurate determination of the disease requires hardware diagnostics:

• ultrasound;
  
• FGS;
• CT and MRI.

When the likelihood of psychological disorders should consult a psychologist. Depending on the underlying cause increase appetite assigned treatment. Usually it is combined with diet.

Methods of treatment depending on the cause hunger

Increased appetite, causes women determined therapies symptom can be eliminated by diet or by drugs.

Depending on the diagnosis can be assigned to treatment:

The reason for hunger	preparations	other procedures
Gastritis	Maalox, Gastal, Rennie.	Dieting.
Cancer	Bevacizumab, Erlotinib, Krizotinib. In the treatment of antibiotics can be used, antiviral and hormonal agents. Depending on which stage of the tumor.	Diet, chemotherapy.
worm infestation	Dekaris, piperazine, Pyrantel.	Diet and traditional recipes
Diabetes	Manin, Diabeton, Glyurenorm.	Diet is required to enable the treatment will not be effective
Reduced sugar	Inderal, Hypothiazid, verapamil.	Diet and the use of glucose in diluted form at attacks. When a serious condition glucose intravenously.
Thyroid disease	Merkazolil, tyrosol, propitsil.	Diet and hormone therapy
Stress	Motherwort: Persen, fluoxetine.	Consultation with a psychologist.
Anemia	Venofer, Maltofer, Ferrum Lek.	Diet, with the use of iron-containing foods.

The list of necessary medicines and the combined appoints specialist (internist, gastroenterologist, psychologist). Self-treatment of pathologies unacceptable.

medication

If hunger is a symptom of the disease, then eliminate it appointed a physician or nutritionist drugs that act on the nervous system and suppress sensitivity to hormones increase appetite. But after their admission, symptoms may return.

Medicines given to temporarily reduce hunger and weight:

• apetinol. Food additive, contributes to the rapid onset of satiety;
• meridia. It increases metabolism and reduces appetite.
• Turboslim. It decreases the appetite and helps to normalize digestion;
• Reduxine. It affects the production of hormones. Blunts hunger. Normalizes metabolism.

These funds are Badami and their action is not fully proven. They have contraindications, which needs to be clarified by a specialist. Uncontrolled reception of funds can harm the body.

Psychotherapy

When hunger is psychological and not get yourself to cope with the problem, it is necessary to turn to a psychologist.

To get rid of the symptom you need to follow the following points:

• to realize that food is essential for the normal functioning of the body, is not the way of pleasure;
• eliminate dependence on food;
• you must find out the cause cravings for food and habits stick stress;
• try to replace another snack hobbies (dancing, swimming, walking).

Most of the treatment is a conversation with the patient, a distraction from the stress and cravings for food jamming problems. psychotropic agents and drugs to reduce appetite can be assigned. Thus, the healing process will be accelerated.

diet therapy

Reduce your appetite, you can use the diet. It is necessary that the body received all the necessary material and did not feel a strong sense of hunger.

To do this, eat foods that take longer to digest and leave a feeling of satiety:

• Fried and fatty foods, though long to digest, but has damage to the body. It must therefore be excluded from the diet, or eat in small portions during the day.
• You need to follow to ensure that products were combined, did not cause increased gas or indigestion.
• You can not use the liquid during meals, it dilutes the gastric juices and prevents timely step satiety.
• Do not use seasonings increase appetite when cooking.
• Dishes should be moderately salted or lightly salted insufficiently. Salt stimulates the appetite.
• Often eat fiber. She longer to digest and helps to cleanse the body of toxins.
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner, you need a certain time. Between them allowed fruit snacks.
• Sweets should be replaced with dried fruits and sugar - honey.

A well crafted menu for the week will allow to avoid overeating. The body should not feel strong hunger. Initially, the diet is recommended to be in conjunction with a nutritionist.

Folk remedies

If your appetite is not a symptom of the disease, the physician is recommended to use recipes of traditional therapy to relieve hunger.

You can use the following recipes:

• Decoction of parsley (50 g herb and 200 ml boiling water) cook for 15 minutes. Eat at the Famine.
  
• The infusion of nettle. Steamed 25 g herb in 200 ml of boiling water. Consumed 30 ml 3 times per day.
• Apple vinegar (50 ml) was diluted in 200 ml of water. Drink before meals. feeling of fullness comes quickly.
• Garlic in solid form (Slice 1) or infusion thereof (3 milled slices infused into 200 ml of water per day, drinking of 30 ml before meals). It contributes to stave off hunger.
• A mixture of ginger, lemon and honey. Need to grind and 150 g lemon (peeled and pitted) and ginger. Add to these, 200 ml honey. Mix thoroughly and store in a cool place. Consumed 15 ml on empty stomach in the morning.

Increased appetite can be overcome by using folk recipes, formulations, or after consulting a psychologist, but only if it arrives reason are not pathological changes in the organism. Also for the treatment of hormonal agents may be used in women, if the violation is caused by a failure in the production of female hormones.

Author of the article: Svetlana Kotlyachkova

Registration of the article: Lozinski Oleg

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