Spasmophilie spasmophilia a quite french disease by Paul Gerard
Spasmophilia is better described as a condition than as a sickness.
Feeling a vital emergencyIn fact the attack of spasmophilia can be summarized in the sensation of an imminent danger it the onset of an "alarm system". As many French media announced it La spasmophilie ses crises ses symptomes et son traitement une maladie bien francaise Spasmophilia its crises its symptoms its treatment a quite French disease
A quick Google search revealed that spasmophilia is morbid tendency to convulsions to tonic spasms such as those observed in tetany infantile spasms or spasmus nutans.
For many years the symptoms grouped under the label "spasmophilia" have been differently evaluated in France by psychiatrists who ascribe them to hysteria or anxiety by endocrinologists general practitioners for whom they are all due to neuromuscular hyperexcitability the cause of which must be sought in the biochemistry of calcium.
Doctors use many different labels to describe patients with unexplained symptoms " somatisation burn out chronic fatigue syndrome multiple chemical sensitivity subclinical depression post traumatic stress disorder low blood pressure spasmophilia " despite no evidence that any of these are distinct or separate entities.
First identified in Belgium France almost forty years ago it was termed "cryptotetany" or "spasmophilia".
Panic attacks are very sudden discrete periods of intense anxiety mounting physiological arousal fear stomach problems discomfort that are associated with a variety of somatic cognitive symptoms.
In medicine a spasmolytic Greek lusis loosening is drug that relieves spasms of smooth muscle; a spasmogen is substance that can produce smooth muscle contractions; spasmophilia is an undue tendency of the muscles to contract.
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