Environmental Causes
CUTE RADIATION SYNDROME
- Radiation exposure.
- 12 hours post-exposure: Vomiting
- 24 hours post-exposure: Prostration (extreme exhaustion), fever, diarrhea
- Later: Petechial hemorrhage, hypotension, tachycardia, profuse bloody diarrhea, maybe death.
- CHINESE RESTAURANT SYNDROME: MSG reaction------> Chest Pain, burning sensation over parts of body.
- BROWN-SEQUARD SYNDROME: Damage (injury) to half of spinal cord ------> symptoms:
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- Loss of pain and temperature sensation on contralateral side of body.
- Loss of proprioception and discriminatory touch on ipsilateral side of body