Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome
For more than two years, Lance Crowder was having severe abdominal pain and vomiting, and no local doctor could figure out why. Finally, an emergency room physician in Indianapolis had an idea.“The first question he asked was if I was taking hot showers to find relief. When he asked me that question, I basically fell into tears because I knew he had an answer,” Crowder said.
The answer was cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS. It’s caused by heavy, long-term use of various forms of marijuana. For unclear reasons, the nausea and vomiting are relieved by hot showers or baths.
“They’ll often present to the emergency department three, four, five different times before we can sort this out,” said Dr. Kennon Heard, an emergency room physician in Aurora, Colorado.
He co-authored a study showing that since 2009, when medical marijuana became widely available, emergency room visits diagnoses for CHS in two Colorado hospitals nearly doubled. In 2012, the state legalized recreational marijuana.
“It is certainly something that, before legalization, we almost never saw,” Heard said. “Now we are seeing it quite frequently.”
Outside of Colorado, when patients do end up in an emergency room, the diagnosis is often missed. Partly because doctors don’t know about CHS, and partly because patients don’t want to admit to using a substance that’s illegal.
CHS can lead to dehydration and kidney failure, but usually resolves within days of stopping drug use. That’s what happened with Crowder, who has been off all forms of marijuana for seven months.
“Now all kinds of ambition has come back. I desire so much more in life and, at 37 years old, it’s a little late to do it, but better now than never,”he said.
CHS has only been recognized for about the past decade, and nobody knows exactly how many people suffer from it. But as more states move towards the legalization of marijuana, emergency room physicians like Dr. Heard are eager to make sure both doctors and patients have CHS on their radar.
Source: http://bobagard.blogspot.com/2016/12/cannabinoid-hyperemesis-syndrome.html
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utter load of hogwash.
this was complete garbage … for the sheep .. marijuana is the safest herb around … lies lies lies …
I live in Indianapolis. I’m going to look this doctor up and tell him what a shill he is. These ridiculous attempts to make marijuana look bad are fucking laughable when the same dumb asses recommend you inject your children with round up chemicals, formaldehyde, mercury and other toxic poisons in vaccines. The health care industry is literally the most corrupt. You’d be better off never seeing a doctor. I don’t even have health insurance. Why pay a ton of money every month just to get poison prescribed to me if I do decide to go to the doctor. I’ve been a paralegal in that industry for 13 years and I know the shit that goes on behind closed doors and how unbelievably corrupt it is. Which is why i’m determined to see it fall.
more nonsense from big brother, be afraid of a plant, ooooh be afraid of a scary little plant.
bs! smoked for 40+ yrs never had an issue or ever heard of this lie!
This is just another invented deceased, there is no such thing. I the millions of American who have been smoking marijuana can a testify to this fact. There is always someone trying to pin some decease on THC.
I knew hanging on to my old fishing gear would at some point come in handy. I had to put on my chest high wading-boots to trudge through that pool of rancid horse pucky. I don’t in anyway advocate the recreational use of marijuana. With that disclosure behind us let me continue.
This author wrote “The answer was cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS. It’s caused by heavy, long-term use of various forms of marijuana. For unclear reasons, the nausea and vomiting are relieved by hot showers or baths.” Honestly! The truth is that the calming and relaxing effects of a hot shower may not be curative, nevertheless it sure helps lessen the impact of most medical conditions. Those unfortunate recipients of severe migraines or cluster headaches that often involve an unsettled stomach, know for certain through personal experience that nausea falls into this category.
The problem with the cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome classification is that this seemingly imaginary syndrome was both created and based on inadequate data. It is lacking any real proof. In the most recent study for example medical professionals attempting to prove their theory began examining the potential existence of this condition in some ninety-eight pathological pot smokers. All their patients had been experiencing the undefined presence of the above symptoms and regular consumption of pot as a minimal criteria.
Ironically the root cause of the nausea and vomiting had actually never been scientifically or medically investigated or determined yet still a diagnosis was offered. The association between pot and the underlying condition was merely assumed because all study participants who suffered nausea were regular marijuana users. This is junk science similar to researchers contending that because dead people all have blood in their veins, that blood was the causation of their demise.
For some suspiciously self serving and hypothesis reaffirming reason an associated follow-up was only available for ten of the ninety-eight patients. Any confirmation of such condition resulting purposefully manipulated data is hardly enough accumulated data to make any kind of legitimate assessment or conclusions.
Being aware of the limited data available yet continuing to suggest the validity of such unproven conclusion is an indication of intentional fraud. Facts usually speak for themselves. Where deceit is necessary to market or confirm a particular hypothesis or theory it is more than obvious a farce! Until more studies have been conducted and more data made available it would probably be best for these fly by night scientists and medical professionals to silence their unconfirmed association between marijuana and disease. With doctors statistically being the third leading cause of premature death in the United States of America one would assume physicians would want to restore a little credibility to their profession.
A Student of the Word
As a member of two of the medical professions primary peer review magazines I once did an analysis of physicians authoring negative articles about cannabis. Every single one I investigated was connected in one way or another to the pharmaceutical industry. All studies where laughably outdated, insufficient or bias. It appears that the industry will fight any positive medical affects of pot because you can grow it in your backyard for free. Remarkably most intelligent people understand their position is built solely upon opinion lacking proven fact. That’s why the public had no reservations about making marijuana legal regardless of what these so called professionals say.
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