 |
|
Healthy Diet Plans >>
Ask a question >>
Health Advice |
Unexplained Weight Loss
What are the pros and cons of experiencing unexplained weight loss? Can someone shed light on the subject of unexplained weight loss?
(May 6, 2008)
|
Advice on Rapid Weight Loss
Weight loss under nine pounds is not likely to be a cause for worry or concern unless there are other symptoms associated with the weight loss. However if the individual is experiencing weight loss over nine pounds there must be a thorough check done to ascertain the cause of weight loss. If the individual is one a diet and is losing more weight than desired, then the diet must be immediately discontinued. To check for further damage signs, please consult a doctor for a thorough checkup and take steps to reverse the damage, if needed.
Sometimes unexplained weight loss is also associated with the lack of nourishment and can be linked to a chronic disorder also known as cachexia. Such unexplained loss of weight which develops as a result of prolonged illness must be appraised by a medical doctor.
If weight loss is accompanied by extreme fatigue, weariness, lethargy for the better part during the day and other debilitating symptoms, then such a condition needs to be immediately taken into consultation with medical experts. Unexplained weight loss that is over nine pounds and climbing, is usually listed as a symptom of an early stage of cancer, namely pancreatic cancers, stomach cancer, cancer of the esophagus, or lung cancer.
|
|
Submitted by C N on May 6, 2008 at 06:20
|
|
|
|
|
Read more questions in Health Advice
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
