Riley-Day Syndrome
Alternate Names : Familial Dysautonomia, Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathy - Type III
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Riley-Day Syndrome Symptoms & Signs
- a family history of Riley-Day syndrome
- Ashkenazi Jewish heritage
- feeding difficulties -- poor sucking and poor ability to swallow, drooling
- breath holding
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sweating while eating
- protracted episodes of vomiting
- lack of response to painful stimuli
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seizures
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hypotonia, low muscle tone
- abnormal body temperature (high or low)
- abnormally high blood pressure occurs intermittently
- incoordination, unsteady gait
- an unusually smooth tongue surface (due to absence of fungiform papillae)
- severe scoliosis
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