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Old 04-01-2010, 09:44 AM
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Too funny, Jana. Yup, they train at "R. U. Kidding University."

It's a little more complicated than "producing too much acetylcholine." It's more like the doorway to the neuromuscular junction is left open too long so that too much gets to the muscle. Make sense? That's why they call it SLOW channel! The channel gets flooded with too much.

Yeah, Atropine is what they give us when we have a "cholinergic crisis," from having too much acetylcholine.

And not to go on and on but this is important. Doctors in the US who do the Tensilon test keep Atropine on hand in case they overdose a patient. It is not part of the protocol. Just like allergists keep antihistamines on hand if a patient reacts to a skin prick or intradermal allergy test. What do we patients need to keep on hand to counteract doctors like this? Knowledge.

It's so simple even a UK doctor could understand it.
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