Reye’s syndrome
Reye’s syndrome is the reason that junior aspirin was withdrawn from the market in the UK some years ago now.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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