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This disorder is named after Baron Karl Friedrich von Munchausen, who was known to invent fantastic stories of his adventures, including his riding cannonballs and traveling to the moon. MSBP specifically involves a caretaker describing nonexistent symptoms or inducing symptoms in a third person, usually a child they care for. How often MSBP occurs is likely very much underestimated, as evidenced by it often taking years to be discovered, even being completely missed in siblings of the victim that is eventually identified. Males are victims of MSBP as often as females. Women are perpetrators of this disorder the vast majority of the time, theoretically because women remain the primary caretakers of children. Perpetrators of MSBP are vulnerable to also suffering from depression, anxiety, and some personality disorders. While there is no specific cause for MSBP, perpetrators tend to have trouble forming a healthy attachment to their children, difficulty managing their anger and frustration, as well as having an ability to overcome the more natural tendency for caretakers to protect the children they care for. Perpetrators are also more likely to have a history of either losing a parent or being abused or neglected as a child. While the symptoms the victim of MSBP presents with are highly variable, they may consist of symptoms that are more easily faked or induced, like suffocation, seizure, bleeding or nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea that can be the result of poisoning. Theories about what perpetrators gain from assuming the sick role through their child include seeking help, inducing symptoms, and being addicted to interactions with medical professionals. MSBP is usually diagnosed through intensive communication between medical, mental health, and child protection professionals, as well as review of all available medical records and interviewing family members, school personnel, and other pertinent community members. Sometimes, covertly videotaping the suspected abuser when with the child can be a useful additional diagnostic tool. The treatment of MSBP involves close collaboration with professionals, family, and community members, intensive psychotherapy for the victim and the perpetrator, as well as protecting the child by either intensive supervision of the perpetrator, temporary or permanent removal of the child from the care of the abuser, and sometimes includes prosecution and incarceration of the perpetrator. If left untreated, MSBP can result in the childs death or growing up emotionally andor medically disabled. What is Munchausen syndrome by proxy Munchausen syndrome by proxy MSBP features a caretaker covertly abusing a child by faking or causing symptoms in the victim. MSBP is also called Munchausen by proxy MBP, factitious disorder that is imposed by one individual on another, or factitious disorder, by proxy induced illness, or fabricated illness and is a mental disorder that belongs to the group of mental illnesses called somatic symptom and related disorders. It is characterized by a feigning or intentional production of physical or mental health symptoms in another person for the sole purpose of placing the other person in the sick role. While the reported frequency with which MSBP occurs seems low at one to three in 1. MSBP cases is much higher. International statistics indicate that this condition is being increasingly assessed when it is severe, and as many as 1 of children with asthma have experienced MSBP at least once. MSBP tends to affect males as victims as often as females. Affected individuals are usually 4 years old or younger and mothers are typically the perpetrators most of the time. The tendency toward maternal perpetrators may be more a result of women continuing to be the primary caregiver role than any gender based predisposition to the disorder. MSBP can take two years or more from the beginning or onset of symptoms to when it is diagnosed. Victims of MSBP are ominously found to have a sibling who is either deceased or to have had medical problems very similar to the current victim of the disorder. This disorder was named for Baron Karl Friedrich von Munchausen. He lived from 1. 72. Germany, joined the Russian military, and was known to tell fantastic tales about the battles he participated in against the Ottoman Turks. For example, he apparently told stories about riding cannonballs and traveling to the moon. As opposed to MSBP factitious disorder imposed on another person, factitious disorder imposed on self is a mental illness in which what are initially thought to be symptoms of illness in the sufferer are in reality a fabrication of the illness by the sufferer rather than fabrication of illness by a third person. The motivation for factitious disorder imposed on self also tends to be an attempt by the sufferer to be seen as sick assuming the sick or patient role. Emotional problems that tend to co occur in people with MSBP include depression, anxiety, and some personality disorders like borderline personality disorder and sociopathy. What causes Munchausen syndrome by proxy What are MSBP risk factors Although there is no specific cause for MSBP, like most other mental disorders, it is understood to be the result of a combination of biological vulnerabilities, ways of thinking, and social stressors biopsychosocial model. Little is known about the specific biological vulnerabilities of individuals with MSBP. Psychologically, MSBP perpetrators tend to have trouble forming a healthy bond attachment with their children. Personality traits of individuals who have a history of inducing symptoms in the children they care for include trouble managing anger or frustration. Socially, those who feign or induce symptoms in others tend to have suffered from some sort of major negative event trauma during their own upbringing, including the death of a parent or other caretaker or having been themselves the victim of child abuse or neglect. What are Munchausen syndrome by proxy symptoms and signs In the diagnostic manual that is recognized by most mental health professionals, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, MSBP is classified as a somatic symptom and related disorder and is referred to as factitious disorder that is imposed by one individual on another. Symptoms of MSBP include the sufferer being induced to experience physical or psychological symptoms or to have symptoms fabricated by another person, usually a caretaker. Specific symptoms in the victim are nearly as varied as the number of victims and perpetrators, with perhaps more emphasis on symptoms that are more feasibly manufactured or induced or are more difficult to measure objectively through laboratory tests for example, stomach upset, other body aches and pains, and trouble breathing or sleeping. Some more common symptoms presented by victims of MSBP include suffocation, induced seizures, bleeding, or poisoning that presents as vomiting or diarrhea.