The condition of Chechen children, diagnosed with pseudoasthmatic syndrome several weeks ago, has abruptly changed for the worse, a local TV reported.
Patients, who have long stayed in different hospitals across the region, claim that after the course of treatment their state only worsened: now during the attack of the disease their noses are bleeding.
“We were given medicine that made us lose control for several hours. We were in the state of intoxication. We do not know, what we were treated with,” a woman, who has undergone a course of treatment in Stavropol told journalists.
Meanwhile, the chief republic’s psychiatrist Sultan Alimkhadzhiev said no one was poisoned, and changes for the worse could be connected with end of the treatment course.
The mysterious disease that affected dozens of people in Chechnya, most of them children, first appeared in the region in December 2005. They have been ill with symptoms including hysteria, panic, shortness of breath, vomiting and diarrhea.
Several versions of the disease’s origin have been already adduced by different doctors, but its origin is still unknown. Muminat Khadzhayeva, a doctor in the neighboring region of Dagestan, blamed ethyl glycol — a chemical that prevents water freezing and is a major cause of poisoning in people and animals. A commission of doctors from the Moscow Serbsky Institute of Forensic Medicine said the cause of disease’s spreading was an effect of psychological infection. Experts had also suggested the disease could be caused by stress brought on by Chechnya’s 11-year war. Some of them even said it was a reaction to media reports and local authorities imposed restrictions on media coverage of the disease.
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