Weight changes

Weight loss:

• • anorexia, dysphagia, vomiting, insufficient supplies of food, defective absorption of nutrients through GIT, malabsorption

  • Loss of nutrients through urine, feces, or injured skin.

  • Diabetes mellitus, hyperthyroidism, adrenal insufficency, chronic infections, malignancies

  • chronic cardiac, pulmonary, or renal failure

  • anorexia nervosa

  • loss of fluid from fluid retaining state - use of diuretics

  • Diet - intentional

  • Problems with getting or preparing food - poverty, old age, social isolation, physical disability, emotional or mental impairment, lack of teeth, ill-fitting dentures, alcoholism, drug abuse.

Weight gain:

• • abnormal accumulation of body fluids, fat