anorexia nervosa inflammatory bowel disease
Anorexia nervosa complicating inflammatory bowel disease. Mallett P(1), Murch S. Author information: (1)St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, Department of Psychiatry. Two cases of inflammatory bowel disease, occurring in adolescence and complicated by anorexia nervosa, are presented.he management of the bowel disease with corticosteroids appeared to precipitate the eating disorder in one case whereas covert withdrawal of steroid treatment led to life threatening complications of inflammatory bowel disease in the other.