Word: dysautonomia
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...cannot coordinate sucking and swallowing. Later he may seem to cry-but without tears. He will never revel in the joys of candy; he cannot taste the difference between sweet and sour. When he burns himself, he may not even feel the pain. He is a victim of dysautonomia-an inherited malfunction of the nervous system...
...families are of Ashkenazic (North European Jewish) extraction, from which more than 98% of American Jews are descended. In those two families, the mother does not know of any Jewish ancestors. In Israel, the forebears of 30 such children were all Ashkenazim rather than Sephardim (Mediterranean Jews). How did dysautonomia become an Ashkenazic malady...
WHEN NBC decided to add medical news to Dave Garroway's morning television show Today, it discovered that TIME was a ready source of authentic material. For a report on dysautonomia, a little known affliction, a symptom of which is weeping without tears, NBC used Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant's story (TIME, June 7, 1954) for script background. Later Today planned to review the treatment of mental ills with new drugs and learned the authoritative work was a booklet by Cant, based on the story Pills for the Mind (TIME, March...
...Nausea & DTs. To combat nausea and vomiting-whether from heaving seas, bumpy airplanes, pregnancy, kidney disease, cancer or heavy X-ray treatment-chlorpromazine seems far superior to other drugs. It is the only one that helps victims of dysautonomia (TIME, June 7), where the cause of vomiting is deep in the nervous system. It is credited with saving several lives in especially stubborn cases of vomiting during pregnancy or from kidney disease. And chlorpromazine seems to be the answer in many cases of persistent hiccuping...
...attacks of vomiting that might otherwise last for several days each week. Beyond that, the best that the doctors can do is help the parents to establish a rigid routine in which the unhappy children can feel secure, with a minimum of occasions for emotional outbursts. Parents of dysautonomia victims have banded together to exchange notes on their children's progress and hints on how to handle them. They have raised $5,000 for research...