Symptoms
For patents with this autosomal
recessive disorder ‘Congenital Insensitivity to Pain (CIP)’ ‘Cognition’ and ‘Sensation’ are
otherwise normal for example the patient can still feel discriminative touch
(though not always temperature) and there is no detectable physical
abnormalities.
Children with this condition often
suffer oral cavity damage both in and around the oral cavity (such as having bitten
of the tip of their tongue) or fractures to bones. Unnoticed infection and ‘corneal
damage’ due to foreign objects in the eye are also found. Because the child can
not feel pain they may not respond to problems, thus being at a higher risk of
more severe disease or otherwise.
In some patients a mild intellectual
disability as well as an impaired corneal reflect also noticed.
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