ALLMedicine™ Acrodynia Center

May 17th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Now a rare disease, acrodynia (painful extremities) primarily affects young children. Also called pink disease or infantile acrodynia,[1] the acrodynic symptoms of irritability, photophobia, pink discoloration of the hands and ...

May 17th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Now a rare disease, acrodynia (painful extremities) primarily affects young children. Also called pink disease or infantile acrodynia, [1] the acrodynic symptoms of irritability, photophobia, pink discoloration of the hands and...

May 17th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Now a rare disease, acrodynia (painful extremities) primarily affects young children. Also called pink disease or infantile acrodynia, [1] the acrodynic symptoms of irritability, photophobia, pink discoloration of the hands and...

May 17th, 2022 - Chelating agents Class Summary Succimer almost completely prevents methylmercury uptake by erythrocytes and hepatocytes. Succimer (Chemet) View full drug information Succimer is a metal chelating agent, an analog of dimercaprol, and is used in lea...

May 17th, 2022 - Medical Care Removal of the inciting agent is the goal of treatment. Correcting fluid and electrolyte losses and rectifying any nutritional imbalances (vitamin-rich diets, vitamin-B complex) are of utmost importance in the treatment of the disease...

Nov 5th, 2020 - Mercury poisoning affects multiple body systems, leading to variable clinical presentations. Mercury intoxication at low levels frequently presents with weakness, fatigue, weight loss, and abdominal pain.

May 4th, 2017 - A 3-year-old boy was hospitalized with mercury poisoning after exposure to a broken sphygmomanometer at a home day care center in Florida, CDC researchers reported. On Nov. 12, 2015, the child had a urine mercury level of 79 μg/L, with clinical si...