How do people with Munchhausen syndrome make themselves sick?

Question

i was just wondering what do theses people do to the bodys to get themselves sick.

Answer 1

Munchausen syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which those affected feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma in order to draw attention or sympathy to themselves. It is in a class of disorders known as factitious disorders which involve "illnesses" whose symptoms are either SELF_INDUCED or FALSIFIED by the patient. It is also sometimes known as Hospital addiction syndrome.

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Answer 2

Munchausen by Proxy is usually mothers making their kids sick to get attention from medical professionals.

Munchausen's is people making themselves sick. They usually exaggerate symptoms they do have and complain of symptoms they don't.

Here's some examples that are very common and could apply to both forms of this disorder. These are from documented cases:

1. The mother suffocates the child in the crib or nursery. The child can't breathe and is taken to the hospital. Mom tries it again at the hospital.

2. Infecting the child with bacteria which causes Sepsis (blood poisoning) and frequently kidney failure.

3. Poisoning the child.

I'm withholding specifics in case anyone comes looking for ideas.

Answer 3

people with munchausens can make themselve ill by consuming poisons or giving themselves infections. there have been cases of hospitalized people rubbing feces over iv sites to give themselves infections.

munchausen by proxy is when someone makes someone else ill. most commonly it is a mother that makes a child ill.

Answer 4

people who successfully feign a certain ailment usually have good knowledge of the disease process...and will know ways on how to produce the symptoms..they usually have family that had the same disease or they themselves are in the medical field