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What is Congenital Analgesia with Anhidrosis?
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- Congenital Analgesia with Anhidrosis, more commonly known as "Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis (CIPA)," is the inability for an individual to feel any pain, as well as the inability to sweat.
1. Frequent physical injuries
2. Absent or reduced sense of smell
3. Lack of pain sensation
4. Inability to feel foreign objects in eye, and eye lacerations
5. Mouth injuries are common
6. Other sensations such as pressure and touch are intact
7. Sensation of heat and cold may or may not be present
8. Inability to sweat
Wouldn't it be cool?
Symptoms
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Treatment
Extra Information
- Parents may teach a child to get help whenever they see blood on themselves.
- When children are young, be especially dedicated to childproofing the house.
- As an adult, set a timer or reminder to use the restroom and to eat.
- Live in a cooler climate.
- A wheelchair may be necessary due to deterioration of joints.
Conclusion
- CIPA is extremely rare. In fact, there have only been approximately 100 cases in the U.S.
- There is no current methods of preventing this disorder. However, during pregnancy, it can be detected.
- http://www.thefactsofpainlesspeople.com/Welcome.html
What is it?
Why don't they sweat?
Can you imagine what it is truly like to be unable to feel pain?
- Eccrine glands are sweat glands located in your epidermis all over your body.
- Because the nerve fibers are not present in the epidermis or sweat glands, there is no way for the brain to communicate to the body that it is overheating.
- Therefore, it is common for individuals with CIPA to have fevers from simply being in hot weather.
Works Cited
- http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/cipa3.htm
- http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/congenital-insensitivity-to-pain
- http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/c/congenital_analgesia/symptoms.htm#symptom_list
- images.google.com
- http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18713585
- http://www.thefactsofpainlesspeople.com/Welcome.html
What causes this condition?
Genetics
- CIPA is part of a group of disorders called HSAN, which stands for hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy. Basically, disorders that cause trouble in perceiving pain and temperature.
- CIPA is HSAN type IV, meaning it is the most severe of the HSAN disorders, and the only condition of its kind that causes an inability to sweat.
- Congenital Analgesia is an autosomal recessive disorder.
- This means it can only be passed down if both an individual's parents are carriers of a mutated NTRK1 gene, which is responsible for nerve growth.
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