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E G Lutz

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PubMed1978

Restless legs, anxiety and caffeinism.

This clinical study of 62 patients with restless legs syndrome and associated anxious-depressed and other clinical states seems to indicate that caffeine is the major etiological factor in the causation of the restless legs syndrome. Anxiety, while modifying the subjective experience of the dysphoric sensation of restless legs, is not a causative factor. Caffeine is responsible for the increased nervous system arousal as well as for the direct peripheral contractile effect on the striated muscle. This arousal is often reflected psychologically in anxiety and sometimes depressive manifestations, insomnia, heightened proprioceptive awareness and physiologically in the toxic sensory experience of restless legs associated with increased neuromuscular reactivity which may include myoclonus and myokomia.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

Neuroleptic-induced akathisia and dystonia triggered by alcohol.

Subclinical extrapyramidal symptoms caused by phenothiazine or butyrophenone derivatives can become manifest during and shortly after the consumption of alcohol. Alcohol appears to lower the threshold of resistance to neurotoxic side effects of previously established neuroleptic drugs. Abstinence from alcohol should be routine advice during neuroleptic psychopharmacotherapy.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1975

Allergic conjunctivitis due to diazepam.

The author reports on four patients, all women, who developed conjunctival hypersensitivity during diazepam treatment. This hypersensitivity is self-limited after diazepam treatment is discontinued. The author suggests that conjunctival hypersensitivity could be mistakenly attributed to contact lens irritation rather than to diazepam.

Administration, Oral↗