A new research suggests that women with a history of eating disorders may struggle to get pregnant quickly. The study also found that these women are more than twice as likely to need fertility treatment
The women had a history of anorexia or bulimia.
The research was conducted by the King’s College London and University College London and reported the International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
The 6.2% women with eating disorders were more likely to need fertility treatment compared with 2.7% of the general population.
However, perhaps surprisingly, more pregnancies in the group of women who had had anorexia at some point were unplanned.
Mary George of the eating disorders charity Beat said many people had no idea of the problems they could be causing in the future.
She said: “Eating disorders are very serious illnesses that are depriving the body of the nutrients that it needs.
“They can have long-term health consequences.”
