Originally Posted by mrsD

So it just might be a cultural thing. In US the terms usually used are "autonomic" or dysautomnia.

Sensory and motor nerve combinations involve many types of nerves, and as such are more serious. For an agent to attack the nerves this globally, one could look at toxins, drugs, or viruses.
Autoimmune factors which are antibodies the host makes in the bone marrow, are often causes of neuropathies where they attack the host instead of an invader. But these usually are specific to myelin. Many drugs (antibiotics and chemo drugs) attack DNA in cells, and as they do this nerves can be one of the many cell types involved.