Word: dysautonomia
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...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...
Painstakingly, Dr. Riley and his colleagues sought for causes and cures of what they named dysautonomia (disorder of the automatic nervous system). From operations on the living and autopsies on children who died of infections, they ruled out adrenal tumors or physical damage to the brain. So far, they have found no cause, but there is no doubt that the disease runs in families, and susceptibility may be transmitted by both parents through a recessive gene...
...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...