Hypokalemic sensory overstimulation
Hypokalemic sensory overstimulation | |
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Specialty | Neurology |
Symptoms | sensory overload, relative resistance to lidocaine local anesthesia |
Causes | disorders of ion channels |
Treatment | oral potassium, avoiding high carbohydrate meals |
Hypokalemic sensory overstimulation is characterized by a subjective experience of sensory overload and a relative resistance to
It is not to be confused with
Signs and symptoms
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Cause
Hypokalemic sensory overstimulation is a term coined by MM Segal and colleagues to describe a syndrome of sensory overstimulation, ineffectiveness of the local anesthetic lidocaine, and in females, premenstrual syndrome.[1] This initial report was followed by discussion in a second article of tens of families with apparent autosomal dominant inheritance of this condition.[2] The similarities were described clinically to ADHD and mechanistically and therapeutically to disorders of ion channels, in particular to the muscle disorder hypokalemic periodic paralysis. Some females with premenstrual syndrome may have the same autosomal dominant disorder underlying their symptoms.[2]
Diagnosis
A test for lidocaine ineffectiveness was briefly described in the 2014 paper[2] but the controlled trial has not yet been completed.[3]
Treatment
The use of oral potassium and avoiding high carbohydrate meals can help treat it according to recent tests, following the same approach that is standard for the muscle disease hypokalemic periodic paralysis.[4][5]
Since this condition includes ineffectiveness of the sodium-channel blocker lidocaine, the amide-type local anesthetic used in dental care articaine was tested and found to be effective in one member of the family.[1] No data about other local anesthetics effective in these individuals for non-dental procedures has yet been published.
References
- ^ S2CID 35659227.
- ^ PMID 24938135.
- ^ Clinical trial number NCT03563573 for "Single-dose Potassium Supplementation in Patients With ADHD for Whom the Anesthetic Lidocaine is Ineffective" at ClinicalTrials.gov
- ^ "What causes ADHD? Some intriguing findings". 11 January 2008. Archived from the original on 14 August 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- PMID 18426576.