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Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis (CIPA)

Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis (CIPA). Mila Hudson (:. Introduction. Congenital insensitivity to pain is an extremely rare and deadly genetic disorder. It is dangerous because the body needs to know when something is not right.

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Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis (CIPA)

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  1. Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis (CIPA) Mila Hudson (:

  2. Introduction Congenital insensitivity to pain is an extremely rare and deadly genetic disorder. It is dangerous because the body needs to know when something is not right. • It stops the nervous system from feeling all pain, heat, and cold. • Anhidrosis: inability to sweat (doesn’t cool your body down) • If affects only children, due to the fact that they are born with it • Only 85 cases in the U.S. ; Over 300 in Japan • May not even feel deadly aneurysms • Some kids can feel touch, just not pain I was not able to find the founder of this disease

  3. transmission -Genetically recessive • Congenital: condition present since birth • CANNOT receive it any other way • A mutation that has occurred in genetic make up during formation of nerve cells • These particular cells tell brain to feel pain, cold, or heat

  4. Signs and symptoms Signs Symptoms • Hyperthermia (you do not know if the child has it since they do not sweat) • High internal body temp. causes a likelihood of more sicknesses • Overheating kills infants easily • Mental retardation • Low IQ • Analgesia • Lack of pain sensation • Lack of sweating • Lack of blinking • Multiple scars • Bone fractures • Oral wounds (biting toung or cheek) • Burns • Reduced reflexes • Overall un-intentional self-mutilation

  5. Treatments • Only one treatment, no cure • Mostly never works • Most children die before age 3, or only make it to 25 yrs. • Nalaxone: a chemical which can stop the nervous system from NOT receiving the messages in a group of cells which initiate pain, heat, & cold

  6. references • http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/336594/the_facts_about_congenital_insensitivity_pg2.html?cat=5 • http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/i/insensitivity_to_pain_with_anhidrosis/symptoms.htm • http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Congenital-insensitivity-to-pain-with-anhidrosis

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