Dr. Alexander Greenstein: “Drastic Solution for Model Who Became Too Thin”
Ashley Ellerson was a professional model with an unusual problem – she became too thin to work.
Ashley Ellerson was a professional model with an unusual problem – she became too thin to work.
Because she was a model, some people assumed she had an eating disorder. In fact, it was ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory disease of the colon. During a flare up, a person with ulcerative colitis may be running to the bathroom 10 or even 20 times a day. “You really can’t live like that,” says Ellerson's doctor, Alexander Greenstein, MD, a colorectal surgeon at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. “They stop eating because they don’t want to go to the bathroom and they lose weight, and it leads to a vicious cycle of getting sicker and sicker and sicker.” Learn more
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