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Reye’s syndrome

Posted in Food Chemical Intolerance Syndrome by EJD on 16 August 2006

Reye’s syndrome is the reason that junior aspirin was withdrawn from the market in the UK some years ago now. Take a look at the symptoms:

  • Nausea
  • Recurrent vomiting
  • Listlessness
  • Personality changes
  • Progressive mental changes
  • Irritability
  • Combativeness
  • Disorientation
  • Confusion
  • Forgetfulness
  • Lethargy
  • Agitation
  • Disorientation
  • Delirium
  • Convulsions
  • Loss of consciousness
  • Coma
  • Brain swelling
  • Encephalopathy
  • Liver dysfunction
  • Enlarged liver
  • Reye’s Syndrome from WrongDiagnosis.com

If you are food chemical intolerant you will probably recognise most of these symptoms and associate them with salicylates, i.e. aspirin.

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