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Reye syndrome occurs almost exclusively in children. While a few adult cases have been reported over the years, these cases do not typically show permanent neural or liver damage. Unlike in the United Kingdom, the surveillance for Reye syndrome in the United States is focused on people under 18 years of age. [citation needed]
Ralph Douglas Kenneth Reye (/ r aɪ / "rye"; 5 April 1912 – 16 July 1977) was an Australian pathologist. [1] [2] In 1958, he discovered a muscular disease that was later named nemaline myopathy. [3] A brain disease he and his colleagues described in 1963 is eponymously known as Reye's syndrome. [4]
In the treatment of childhood fever, it has been shown to be inferior to paracetamol and aspirin taken separately. In addition, because it is converted to aspirin, benorylate is not recommended in children due to concerns about Reye syndrome .
Reye's syndrome, a rare but severe illness characterized by acute encephalopathy and fatty liver, can occur when children or adolescents are given aspirin for a fever or other illness or infection. From 1981 to 1997, 1207 cases of Reye's syndrome in people younger than 18 were reported to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Treatments for influenza include a range of medications and therapies that are used in response to disease influenza. Treatments may either directly target the influenza virus itself; or instead they may just offer relief to symptoms of the disease, while the body's own immune system works to recover from infection.
Infantile digital fibromatosis (IDF), also termed inclusion body fibromatosis or Reye's tumor, usually occurs as a single, small, asymptomatic, nodule in the dermis on a finger or toe [1] of infants and young children. [2] IMF is a rare disorder with approximately 200 cases reported in the medical literature as of 2021. [3]
REYE'S Syndrome: National Reye's Syndrome Foundation, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Mayo Clinic, Western Journal of Medicine article, National Institutes of Health, Medline Plus, Centers for Disease Control, American Medial Association
Reye's syndrome is a potentially fatal disease that causes numerous detrimental effects to many organs, especially the brain and liver, as well as causing hypoglycemia. [20] The exact cause is unknown, and while it has been associated with aspirin consumption by children with viral illness, it also occurs in the absence of aspirin use.