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102 - Feeding and eating disorders

Feeding and eating disorders

397 Feeding and eating disorders 6B80 6B83 Avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder 6B81 Bulimia nervosa 6B82 Binge-eating disorder Feeding and eating disorders Anorexia nervosa 6B84 Pica 6B85 6B8Y Other specified feeding or eating disorder 6B8Z Feeding or eating disorder, unspecified. Rumination-regurgitation disorder Feeding and eating disorders involve abnormal eating or feeding behaviours that are not better accounted for by another medical condition, and are not developmentally appropriate or culturally sanctioned. Feeding disorders involve behavioural disturbances that are not related to body weight or shape concerns, such as eating of non-edible substances or voluntary regurgitation of foods. Eating disorders involve abnormal eating behaviour and preoccupation with food, accompanied in most instances by prominent body weight or shape concerns. Feeding and eating disorders include the following: Feeding and eating disorder diagnoses should not be used to classify low-level concerns related to eating or behaviours that are common or culturally sanctioned. Feeding and eating disorders