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    Reye's Syndrome; Because You Need To Know
    Reye's Syndrome; Because You Need To Know
    Reye's Syndrome; Because You Need To Know
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    Reye's Syndrome; Because You Need To Know

    By National Reye's Syndrome Foundation

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    A quick look at everything you need to know about Reye's Syndrome. Find out about Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and aspirin dangers. Discover why Chicken Pox Parties can be deadly to children. Learn about aspirin and how it triggers Reye's Syndrome in children. Above all, don't ever forget that Kids & Aspirin Products DON'T Mix!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNational Reye's Syndrome Foundation
    Release dateJun 30, 2011
    ISBN9781465985248
    Reye's Syndrome; Because You Need To Know
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    National Reye's Syndrome Foundation

    Founded in 1974, the National Reye's Syndrome Foundation is a children's health advocacy organization dedicated to eradicating the incidence of Reye's Syndrome. We are a 501(c)3 charity, and your purchases are tax deductible. Our websites include: www.ReyesSyndrome.org www.KidsCanWin.com www.reyessyndrome.mobi reyessyndrome.wordpress.com https://pinterest.com/reyessyndrome www.RSGifting.org

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      Reye's Syndrome; Because You Need To Know - National Reye's Syndrome Foundation

      REYE’S SYNDROME; BECAUSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

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      National Reye's Syndrome Foundation, Inc.

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      Reye’s Syndrome; Because You Need To Know

      © 2011 by National Reye's Syndrome Foundation. Inc.

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      Reye’s Syndrome; Because You Need To Know

      Chapter One

      Reye's – The Beginnings

      Between 1951 and 1962 fourteen girls and seven boys between five months and eight and a half years of age were admitted to the Royal Alexander Hospital for Children in Sydney, Australia with a mysterious disease. The first ten were admitted between 1951 and 1959 and all ten died. Of the group of eleven children admitted between 1959 and 1962, 7 died and only 4 survived.

      During those years, Dr. Ralph Douglas Kenneth Reye was the Director of the Institute of Pathology at the Royal Alexander Hospital for Children. Dr. James Baral was Resident Pathologist, and Dr. Graeme Morgan was Chief Resident Medical Officer.

      During Dr. Reye's examination of two of the children admitted to the Royal Alexander Hospital for Children in 1957 who perished, Dr. Reye reported on the autopsy of the second of these that he was seeing a consistent and unusual set of abnormalities. This led to the clinical diagnosis of fatty degeneration of the viscera being made during life in the next patient.

      In the autopsy reports of the first few patients, Douglas Reye noted very diffuse involvement of liver cells with marked fatty degeneration, little evidence of necrosis or inflammation, and an appearance which did not suggest to him an infective process. He noted changes in the kidneys and in the brain and raised the possibility of exposure to some unknown toxin.

      In his report on the autopsy of the fourth patient, a girl aged 6 years and 9 months admitted in 1956, he commented that in each of the affected organs, namely the liver, kidney and cerebrum, damage took the form of a cytoplasmic disorder without any equivalent nuclear disturbance and without any associated vascular or mesoblastic disturbance. He wrote, It seems unlikely that any viable agent, bacterial or viral, would produce a pattern quite like this, and one can only postulate some undiscovered 'toxin' which has caused a disordered metabolism in the cells of the organs concerned.

      In the sixth patient he noted that the myocardium and the pancreas were also affected and at the end of the report on the seventh patient, in November 1957, he wrote: "This is a further example of the visceral and cerebral degenerative disease of unknown etiology

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