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Dermatophagia (from Ancient Greek δέρμα — lit. skin and φαγεία lit. eating) or dermatodaxia (from δήξις, lit. biting) [3] is a compulsion disorder of gnawing or biting one's own skin, most commonly at the fingers. This action can either be conscious or unconscious [4] and it is considered to be a type of pica. Those affected with dermatophagia typically bite the skin around ...
Excoriation disorder, more commonly known as dermatillomania, is a mental disorder on the obsessive–compulsive spectrum that is characterized by the repeated urge or impulse to pick at one's own skin, to the extent that either psychological or physical damage is caused.
Preventive analgesia is a practice aimed at reducing short- and long-term post- surgery pain. Activity in the body's pain signaling system during surgery produces "sensitization", increasing the intensity of post-operative pain. Reducing activity in the body's pain signaling system by the use of analgesics before, during and immediately after ...
A New Pain Medication Could Reinforce the Disastrous Crackdown on Prescription Opioids. Vertex Pharmaceuticals is trumpeting the results of clinical trials indicating that VX-548, its new, non ...
A Minnesota jury ruled Friday that a pharmacist who refused to fill a prescription for a morning-after pill because of his "beliefs" did not violate a woman's civil rights under state law but ...
Wellbutrin is effective at reducing the severity of depression symptoms for most people, but like other antidepressants, it doesn’t always start working right away.
It is also used for repairing dura mater tears and bronchial fistulas and for achieving hemostasis after spleen and liver trauma, [16] in "no sutures " corneal transplantation, pterygium excision with amniotic membrane or conjunctival autograft, and in eye trauma for corneal or conjunctival defects, [20] [21] [22] as well as for skin graft donor site wounds to reduce postoperative pain. [23]
Dysesthesia is a common symptom of a withdrawal from alcohol or other drugs. Dysesthesia is also a common symptom of multiple sclerosis. It is an effect of spinal cord injury. [5] Many patients with occlusal dysesthesia have reported recent oral surgery before the onset of dysesthetic pain. [3]