Anorexia in teens is an eating disorder. The patients of anorexia nervosa do not eat enough to keep their body working properly. They get a poor diet and drop too much weight and become weak and unhealthy. Often, people with anorexia work out too much and suffer with fat yet when they are losing weight.

The girls with anorexia occasionally take diet medicine to control hunger and to try to drop weight. These pills frequently make girls feel anxious and nervous. Girls with anorexia have faintness, heart troubles, low blood pressure and fainting spells.

A youngster with anorexia is usually a perfectionist and a high achiever in school. At the same time, they suffer from low self-esteem, irrationally believing they are fat regardless of how thin they becomes. When anorexia reaches on serious stage in the body then it may lead to death.

People with anorexia often have low self-esteem and obsessive thoughts and behaviors.
Dry skin, dehydration, and constipation are some ordinary symptoms of anorexia. People suffer with anorexia has depressed, tired and cold. Menstrual periods may stop since there is not enough estrogen to maintain the body's normal functions.

The symptoms of anorexia are as bellow:

•Feel out of control.
•Lie about food
•Refusal to maintain body weight above a minimally normal weight for height, body type, age, and activity level
•Exercise compulsively.
•Intense fear of weight gain
•overweight despite dramatic weight loss
•Suffer from mood swings, depression, or anxiety.
•Become obsessed with fat and calories.
•Loss of menstrual periods
•Extreme concern with body weight and shape
•Sore throat and painless swelling of the cheeks from vomiting

There are no drugs accepted specially for anorexia, but several, including some antidepressants, are being investigated for this use. Proper treatment of any present vitamin and dietary-mineral deficiencies, mainly in the general case of zinc shortage, may be highly beneficial in anorexia.

Successful treatment of anorexia is possible by natural therapy, but it can take many years. The earlier intervention arrests the course of the disease, the more successful the treatment is likely to be. Support groups, behavioral therapy, family support and other type of natural therapy can deal with anorexia.