What is Serotonin syndrome ?
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It is quite simply what it sounds like, the symptoms that occur when you have too much serotonin in your body – naturally, functional humans tend to have their levels of serotonin carefully regulated by the brain. Whilst our body is use to having serotonin in it, too much of the chemical can actually have adverse side effects.
In serotonin in particular, it messes with how our nerves interact with our body. Symptoms tend to include everything from diarrhoea, dizziness and vomiting to more severe side effects such as muscle spasms, seizures and loss of consciousness.
How does it occur?
Usually you are taking medication which gives serotonin to your body, most of the time because you are lacking it (according usually to your own admission). As a result your body over the coming days begins to slowly overdose more and more until your side effects become noticeable. The cure in this situation would be to change your medication to suit your problem.
In more rare cases, people can be failing to regulate their levels of serotonin in their bodies – this is obviously not their fault. As such serotonin blockers are usually prescribed.
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