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Facial sweating after food: a new sign of diabetic autonomic neuropathy.

British medical journal ·Vol. 1 ·No. 5853 ·1973-03-10 ·Pages 583-7

Watkins PJ

Abstract

Facial sweating during eating (gustatory sweating) has been observed for the first time in a group of diabetics, and is considered to be a feature of the autonomic neuropathy which affected them all. The sweating, which was sometimes very severe, was produced by many foodstuffs, cheese being the most powerful stimulus. Atropine inhibited sweating stimulated by eating cheese, and oral anticholinergic drugs effectively eliminated the symptoms. These bizarre symptoms are probably due to abnormal nerve regeneration occurring as a consequence of the spontaneous autonomic neuropathy.

MeSH Terms
Adolescent Adult Atropine/pharmacology Autonomic Nervous System Cheese/adverse effects Citrus Diabetic Neuropathies/diagnosis,physiopathology Face Female Food Hypersensitivity Heart Rate Humans Male Middle Aged Neck Nerve Regeneration Parasympatholytics/pharmacology Quaternary Ammonium Compounds/pharmacology Retinal Diseases Shoulder Sweating/drug effects Tyramine/pharmacology
Chemicals
Parasympatholytics Quaternary Ammonium Compounds Atropine Tyramine
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Watkins P J
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Article Info
Journal
British medical journal
Abbr.
Br Med J
ISSN
0007-1447
DOI
10.1136/bmj.1.5853.583
Published
1973-03-10
Pages
583-7
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
0372673
PMCID
PMC1589896
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.5853.583 PMC Full Text
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