5 Diseases That Can Make Mad

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1. Addison's disease
Addison's disease included in hormone disorders. The disease is somewhat 'crazy' because it can cause death from emotional stress that appear suddenly. The disease is not curable but can controled with drugs.

Addison's disease is also called Addison's Polyglandular.

The disease occurs because the body is unable to produce adrenaline, the hormone responsible for stress. Without adrenaline, the body organs can not respond to stress make sufferers become emotionally unstable and depressed. Addison's disease can cause irritability, emotional outbursts and depression because the patient suffered from lack of salt and low sugar levels.

Presenting symptoms such as chronic fatigue, muscle weakness, loss of appetite, drastic weight loss, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, low blood pressure causing fainting spells and some areas of the skin changes color to dark. If it occurs in children the effect is more pronounced than in adults. Treatment given is usually a steroid to control the disease.

2. Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD / Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy)
The disease is included in a nervous breakdown. People suffering from this disease to be as crazy as the burning pain of the body like fire. Cure of these diseases is very complex because it arose spontaneously, drugs are given only reduce the symptoms alone.

RSD sufferers like being tortured every waking up because the pain of burning legs, arms and people feel like being in hell. Each would touch something hot and swollen and appear excessive perspiration.

The disease is believed to be a chain reaction of abnormal sympathetic nervous system, the body system that regulates blood flow in the skin. This disease can spontaneously resolve on their own but when they arise incredible pain. Many patients undergo intensive treatment over the years only to reduce pain.

3. Trimethylaminuria (TMAU) or fish odor syndrome
The disease is due to a rare metabolic disorder. This disease makes people crazy because it causes the sufferer smelling like fish. Although difficult to cure there are several ways to reduce symptoms.

Trimethylaminuria (TMAU) or also known as fish odor syndrome, is a very rare metabolic disorder, which causes defects in the normal production of the enzyme Flavin containing monooxygenase 3 (FMO3). When FMO3 is not working properly or the amount produced is not enough, the body loses the ability to destroy trimethylamine (TMA) from precursor compounds in food digestion into trimethylamine oxide (TMAO).

The result is TMAU, which eventually accumulate trimethylamine will produce a smell of urine, sweat and breath odor is very strong and fishy. Although frequent bathing, using deodorant, perfume and cologne is not quite sticking to eliminate body odor. As a result, the patient can be dropped in psychological and social life.

There is no cure for TMAU healing. Patients affected by this disease can only reduce the odor by limiting foods that do not trigger the onset of TMA. But this is quite troublesome because almost all everyday foods such as eggs, beans, meat and fish contain choline which is the amino acid molecules forming the TMA.

4. Morgellons Disease
Types of this disease is a disorder of the skin. Morgellons disease makes these patients may be mad because it always feels itchy with no known cause. The disease is even debatable whether real or just imagination of the sufferer.

The cause of this disease is unknown because the complained of itching elusive. Patients will usually complain of itching and scratching constantly want. Patients are convinced there is something under the skin that can infect such as parasitic worms.

This is what makes a person scratching continues as it seeks to remove the cause of the itch. Patients will be told that he must scratch continuously to remove these parasites from the skin.
Patients often describe something that lives under the skin as small fibers. If viewed with a microscope is believed to be white, blue, red or black. In addition, there is also believed as the sand grains as black or white in the skin.

5. Harlequin ichthyosis
It is a genetic skin disease. Normally appear on a newborn whose skin is hardened and shaped like a diamond scaly. There is no cure for this disease. Babies with this condition are born with a hard skin, thick and exceptional drought in nearly all the flesh. These conditions make it difficult to control fluid loss baby, difficult and hard to regulate body temperature to fight infection.

Consequently, many of these infants who are dehydrated or dehydrated and exposed to infection at birth. Such patients usually die as infants. Only a few patients are able to survive to adulthood, and it was very difficult to fight because every time have to apply moisturizer (lotion) to the body.
Source : FoxNews

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