CHEM 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Emily Dickinson, Congenital Insensitivity To Pain, Epinephrine Autoinjector

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 183

Document Summary

If one uses an epi-pen, there is a need to go to the hospital afterwards for sure: remarks about pain, relief of pain anesthetics, pain research prescription drugs, remarks about pain. A small number of people do not experience pain it is called congenital analgesia. They often can feel touch but not always temperature. This disease often introduces itself alongside other diseases (alzheimer, dementia) in old age. Nothing begins, and nothing ends that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other"s pain and perish in our own. Pain is the number one reason people seek medical care. There are different types of pains, more predominant in women or in men. Note: these are overlapping not only in one or the other! Acute pain results from disease, inflammation or injury confined with time. Chronic pain persists, representing the disease itself. Persons > 65 years old (arthritis drug sales are #1 in the world)