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For three months a 17-year-old boy had been suffering from laryngitis, pharyngitis and conjunctivitis, weight loss, nocturnal sweating and signs of changing cranial-nerve involvement (dizziness, nausea, nystagmus). The diagnosis of recurrent polychondritis was made only when, in addition to a definite inspiratory stridor there also developed a painful swelling of the left ear cartilage and a saddle nose due to loss of the cartilaginous portion of the nasal skeleton. Histological examination of the inflamed ear cartilage confirmed the diagnosis. After treatment with prednisone (100 mg daily, gradually reduced to 25 mg) and azathioprine (100 mg daily, increased to 150 mg after three weeks), there was clinical improvement, but the airway resistance (R = 6.2 cm H2O.s/l) rose further, requiring tracheostoma twelve months after onset of symptoms.
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PMID:[Relapsing polychondritis]. 273 79

Formaldehyde is but one of many chemicals capable of causing the tight building syndrome or environmentally induced illness (EI). The spectrum of symptoms it may induce includes attacks of headache, flushing, laryngitis, dizziness, nausea, extreme weakness, arthralgia, unwarranted depression, dysphonia, exhaustion, inability to think clearly, arrhythmia or muscle spasms. The nonspecificity of such symptoms can baffle physicians from many specialties. Presented herein is a simple office method for demonstrating that formaldehyde is among the etiologic agents triggering these symptoms. The very symptoms that patients complain of can be provoked within minutes, and subsequently abolished, with an intradermal injection of the appropriate strength of formaldehyde. This injection aids in convincing the patient of the cause of the symptoms so he can initiate measures to bring his disease under control.
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PMID:Diagnosing the tight building syndrome. 344 98