Treatment
Treatments for CIPA do not always work; however, there are some cases where naloxone may be used as a treatment. Naloxone is a chemical that acts within the nervous system of the body by blocking the nervous system from causing the inactions that occur within the group of cells that receives the message to initiate the sensation of pain, heat, or cold. Most treatments are hard to narrow down for this condition because each CIPA patient may have other conditions including the absence of a sweat gland, nerve fibers, ulcers, and other sub-conditions. It has been suggested that young CIPA sufferers have their baby teeth removed so they cannot chew through their tongue, lips or fingers until their full set of adult teeth grow through.
Read more about this topic: Congenital Insensitivity To Pain With Anhidrosis
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