there is no medical treatment to cure anorexia, that I know of...
I suppose various psych drugs could be tried.....
some pts allow a tube feeding....
some will allow constant IV nutrition which is extremely expensive....
the "cure" for this problem lies strictly and solely with the patient....
See post #24. There are legalities to force feed a patient. There was a movie I remember in the latter years of my nursing entitled Sharing the Secret which is about builemia which might be more appropriate to this( don't know). But yes, feeding tubes, gastric tubes and such. The problem is many patients ARE suicidal or are in such atrocious states mentally they will pull their IV's, and do the binging and purging anyway. I still think this is would have to be treated as a mental disorder and ordered via the courses for treatment. That's the way we used to do it.
One must read charts and figure the history or the patient but sounds like this is not just anorexia which is why I suggested full restraints but one cannot just order restraints 24/7. It's illegal. So I would think this patient has much more issues than just anorexia nervosa but I retired a decade ago.