Age of anxiety attacks

This has been called the age of anxiety - and rightly so.

Tranquilizers they have become almost as banal as aspirin in typical Cabinet of medicine and doctors every day listening to a multitude of physical complaints enabled for anxiety attacks.

This undercurrent of daily anxiety tends to hide a psychiatric problem generalizado.Es known by various names, what anxiety neurosis is the most common.Although it affects approximately 10 million people, what the ailment single medical more prevalent, its causes and the cure are unknown.

Recently, Dr. Feris Pitts and Dr. James N. McClure, of Washington University in St. Louis, took the first step towards this dismantling misterio.Ellos showed that anxiety neurotic produce excessive amounts of key chemical which is a normal product of metabolism.

When this chemical: lactic acid - injected into patients as predictable and reliable, produces symptoms of ansiedad.Por therefore, has opened up a new area of research in chemistry psychiatry.

Dr. Pitts describes how effects anxiety neurosis estimated that 5% of the population of this country. "These people, while are constantly nervous and anxiety attacks seem conscientious and able to carry out their work," said.

One of the patients of Dr. Pitts, describes their symptoms of anxiety in this way (began 22 years ago, when he lived with his wife and two young children in San Francisco):

"I have begun to prepare for bed one night and the first thing that I was aware of was a pain in the center of my chest." Spread around my chest and has empeorado.A continued I felt palpitations, and then I had difficulty breathing.I started to walk around, trying to get my breath.Me Vine frightened and thought that it was having an attack card?aco.A continuation, I got panicky.

"Finally, I had some coffee and after an hour or so I found it easier to breathe and my chest pain were not so graves.Pero I cannot go back to bed."Sit overnight.

"Symptoms kept recurring every week."I went a doctor and was always the same.Listened to my heart, took my blood pressure, and all they gave me the same answer: there is nothing wrong with me.

"I came to the conclusion that had an incurable disease of the heart and the doctors did not want to bother me by telling me."

"A night I arrived home from work and told my wife that if I had to die, that he wanted to die among friends and relatives in my hometown." Thus in three days I had sold everything and we returned to St. Louis.

"Continuous attacks and 1 start the same answer the médicos.Tengo round."

"A night at home, jumped and ran six blocks to a course, do not think hospital.Por, but it was a dandy as if you were having an attack on the heart. ran the reception at the hospital and requested that the nearest doctor." 1 told him: "I'm having a heart attack!"I can laugh now, but I was not laughing then.

"The doctor I marked and I provided in the idea that 1 you should see a psiquiatra.Fue the first doctor who suggested this."

"I took your advice.""Later, I was sent Dr. Pitts."

That was eight years ago.Now 50 years old, says: "If 1, then I knew what I know now, I am sure that my attacks would have been milder due to the very knowledge than they really were".

Dr. Pitts said that making a diagnosis of anxiety neurosis is a complex issue.There are some symptoms to a degree in normal individuals that are under stress;for example, in the soldiers in combat or students under the strain of exams.

Using guidelines established in earlier studies and their own experiences, Professor Pitts uses the following criteria for diagnosis:

Frequent episodes of extreme anxiety as a feeling of imminent death, fear of insanity, fear of an attack on the heart, or another serious affliction haying.Attacks include at least two of the following options: lightheadedness or dizziness, fainting or get breathing completes, choking or difficulty breathing, chest pain and a lump in the throat; take partApart from at least three of the following options: lightheadedness or dizziness, faintness, weakness, fatigue, shaking inwards, tremor in the skin, the pulsating vascular and the palpitation tingling sensation.

Serious feelings of tension almost daily for at least two years immediately before the interview for testing.

On the occasion, at least 10 of the following symptoms: headache, dizziness, blurred vision, fatigue of pain in the chest, palpitations, difficulty breathing, involved in skin mood depressed, trembling, tingling sensation weakness of tremor, fears, and insomnia.

No other psychiatric illness or serious medical disorder that affects the heart, lungs, liver, kidney or very rare neuromuscular.Es function to find a patient in whom these symptoms occur after the age of 35.

The results of four independent in four Nations studies prompted Dr. Pitts to perform a chemical test which showed that neurotics of anxiety, of standard exercise, excessive amounts of acid l?ctico.Adem?s, production anxiety symptoms appeared often with an increase of the substance in the body.

Lactic acid occurs normally in the metabolism of sugar in the tissues of the cuerpo.Las people with organic disease seriously develop elevated lactate levels in the blood after the ejercicio.En investigations, neurotic anxiety produce the same high levels in the blood of the substance.

During the exercise muscle tissue produces lactic acid, which then it is transported to the liver by torrent sangu?neo.El liver, in turn, eliminates the lactic acid and reconstructs the molecules of sugar which are returned to the current sangu?nea.En patients with liver disease, this process of cleansing the liver is faulty and excessive lactic acid is produce.H?gado [anointing turned out to be normal in neurotic anxiety, however.]

Dr. Pitts decided to find if lactate injected directly into a patient would produce symptoms of the neurosis ansiedad.La response was dram?tica.Todos of neurotic anxiety experienced symptoms of an anxiety attack.

"" Very nervous and tight chest, "said a patient.""* Uncomfortable breathing vision they focused very desagradable.ten?a this type of attack once on the job and had to go to the doctor - as well as this, only that I'm not so afraid this time because you're here and not leave this fluid in my vein I damage".

Therefore has been taken the first step toward understanding complex chemistry behind the symptoms of the neurosis ansiedad.DRS.Pitts and McClure work strongly indicates that a specific physical process triggers the increased levels of acid l?ctico.Deben steps in this process chemist known in detail, it is possible to control the symptoms of anxiety attacks or even prevent althogether.

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