Melissa Avrin died at age 19 of bulimia. It's a tricky disease, because very often bulimic patients do not appear emaciated or have obvious signs of an eating disorder. Patients commonly die of electrolyte imbalances that occur as a result of vomiting, causing sometimes dangerous or fatal heart arrhythmias. The impact on a family already suffering from trying to help the victim is devastating. Parents are not supposed to bury children and when the cause is an eating disorder as...
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