AW: AW: [ RadSafe ] TMI - reported "metallic taste"

[Maury Siskel]

Here are a few from using search term [ metallic taste ] on search 
engine: teoma.com . Topic has been of some interest to me because am 
essentially anosmic all my life  (78 yrs)
Cheers,
Maury&Dog
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http://health.yahoo.com/ate/drweil/alldaily/2005/02/20050208

http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/003050.htm

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003050.htm

http://www.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/not257897.asp

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Rainer.Facius at dlr.de wrote:

>Syd:
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>In an attempt to find some of the literature you alluded to, I just found the two references below, both case reports pertaining to a "non-anaphylactic" 'shock' reaction to procaine penicillin.
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>Can you provide some more pointers to your literature?
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>BTW: The second reference offers an interesting mechanistic hypothesis as to causes contributing to such syndromes:
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>"The cultural acceptance of the reality of 'mysterious' forces played a role in the syndrome."
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>Doesn't "'mysterious' forces" yield a perfect characterization of the layman's radiophobia of low dose and low dose rate exposures?  :-) 
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>And furthermore, what does it tell us about our culture?  :-(
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>Best regards, Rainer
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>Lankin DL, Jewell GM, Grinvalsky HT, Fye DL.
>Psychotic-like reaction to procaine penicillin G.
>(Annals of Emergency Medicine) Ann Emerg Med. 12#8(1983)507-9
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>Publication Types: Case Reports
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>Abstract:
>A patient developed a psychotic-like reaction immediately after receiving an intramuscular injection of procaine penicillin G. The patient complained of 
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