CIPA Disease: When a Person Can't Feel Pain
H ave you heard about Ashlyan Blockers who is affected by C IPA from her infant stage? Ashlyn is now 12 who suffers from congenital insensitivity to pain with anhydrosis (CIPA), a disorder that avoids her brain from receiving signals that she never experience pain. C IPA stands for cognitive insensitivity to pain and anhydrosis. It is a rare hereditary disease. It causes affected individuals unable to feel pain and unable to sweat at high temperatures (anhidrosis) . In short, an autosomal recessive disorder of the nervous system prevents the feeling of pain or temperature and prevents a person from sweating. So, it is also known as hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type IV (HSAN IV). The name of the disease (CIPA) is quite descriptive because it elucidates several essential characteristics. Several examples ultimately make you understand what is the mean of descriptive? i.e., sensory neuropathy means that it is a type of nerve disease that majorly affects the ner...