Hunger

Contents for Excessive hunger

Introduction: Excessive hunger
Causes (70 conditions)
Drug causes (305 listings)
Drug interaction causes (232 listings)
Diagnostic tests (17 listings)
Questions your doctor may ask (and why) (17 listings)
Combined symptoms
News (6 listings)

Excessive hunger

Hunger: Hunger is listed as an alternate name or description for symptom:

Excessive hunger

Causes of Excessive hunger (Hunger): See detailed list of causes below.

Excessive hunger (medical symptom): Inappropriate hunger or overeating.

Introduction: Hunger

Excessive hunger (medical symptom): Excessive eating is called "polyphagia" (or hyperphagia) and can be the symptom of numerous conditions. For a variety of mental and emotional conditions that cause excessive eating or binging, see overeating. For conditions causing the feeling that you are full when eating (or causing this sensation too early), see fullness. The list here deals primarily with medical conditions that affect the body's metabolism and cause an increase in the appetite and excessive hunger for food. See also appetite changes or appetite loss if these descriptions are more appropriate. Certain medical conditions causing hunger are extremely serious and any hunger symptoms need prompt professional medical advice for correct diagnosis and treatment.

Causes of Excessive hunger (Hunger)

The list of medical condition causes of Excessive hunger (Hunger) includes:

Indigestion - causing eating more to reduce discomfort.
Some possible causes of abnormal hunger include:
- Marijuana - a form of cannabis
- Cannabis
- Diabetes - usually if undiagnosed or poorly controlled diabetes

All 70 causes of Excessive hunger

Related Symptoms for Hunger

Research the causes of these related symptoms that are similar to, or related to, the symptom Hunger:

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Weight gain (360 causes)
Thirst (171 causes)
Overeating (44 causes)
Undereating (104 causes)
Loss of appetite (1070 causes)
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Thinness (528 causes)
Cravings (32 causes)
Indigestion (112 causes)
Hypoglycemia (284 causes)
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Hyperphagia (44 causes)
Amphetamine abuse
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Broader Symptom Types for Hunger:

Research the causes of these symptoms that are more broader types of symptom than Hunger:

Eating symptoms (2462 causes)
Appetite changes (1189 causes)
Digestive symptoms (5299 causes)
Food symptoms (1907 causes)
Sensory symptoms (7134 causes)
Neurological symptoms (9575 causes)
Nutrition symptoms (614 causes)
Pain (6458 causes)
Sensations (6520 causes)
Brain symptoms (2787 causes)
Nerve symptoms (9132 causes)
Common symptoms (8589 causes)
Body symptoms (5672 causes)
Head symptoms (10192 causes)

More Symptom Information for Hunger

For a medical symptom description of 'Hunger', the following symptom information may be relevant to the symptoms: Excessive hunger (symptom). However, note that other causes of the symptom 'Hunger' may be possible.

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