Bulimic people with normal weight and do not go on to become anorexic have major health problems so in case of adolescent patients with anorexia had found abnormal heart rhythms but not in case of patients with bulimia. A great danger is for patients which have bulimia and anorexia. Health problems and serious risks appear in this case.

With bulimia can be associated some medical problems like: teeth erosion, cavities, and gum problems, water retention, swelling, and abdominal bloating, fluid loss with low potassium levels which occur from excessive vomiting or laxative use but in severe cases it can cause extreme weakness, near paralysis, or lethal heart rhythms, acute stomach distress, rupture of the esophagus, or food pipe, problems in swallowing caused by repetitive assaults on the esophagus (the food pipe) from forced vomiting.

Other medical problems can be irregular menstrual periods and rarely weakened rectal walls that requires surgery. Although may appear many complications like cesarean sections, postpartum depression, miscarriages and complicated deliveries, healthy pregnancies are met to pregnant women with a history of eating disorder. In this case their babies can have a higher risk for low birth weight, prematurity, and malformation.

This disease presents some self-destructive behaviors. So many teenage girls with eating disorders smoke because they thought that in this way can be prevented weight gain. Impulsive behaviors, like sexual promiscuity, self-cutting, and kleptomania are met in half of women who present bulimia . Alcohol, drugs or both are consumed by 30% to 70% of patients with bulimia, rate which is higher than for the general population and in people with anorexia. Reports of bulimia shows that substance abuse is lower than in people with anorexia.

Usually women with bulimia abuse over-the-counter medications which cause vomiting like laxatives, appetite suppressants, diuretics, and drugs (e.g., ipecac). These drugs can have some risks. For example have been reported ipecac poisonings and dependence on laxatives for normal bowel functioning. Also the diet pills can be risky if they are abused.

Unfortunately many women, and especially teenage girls suffer of bulimia because they consider that losing weight is a good thing.Unfortunately they do not realize that they are risking their lives.