CHARACTERISTICS AND EFFECTS

CHARACTERISTICS:
The congenital insensibility to pain with anhidrosis has a lot of characteristics that allows the doctors know that you have CIPA:
some of there are......

*The child that not feel pain,scratches the eyes very hard,causing loss of vision.
*Can suffer hypothermia and extreme heat.
*In addition to not feel pain, they do not experience other nerve related sensations. 
*Mental retardation as result of hypothermia.
* Infection and scarring of the tongue.

EFFECTS

Patients with this disorder are very susceptible to harm themselves in areas that would normally be protected from injury solely because of pain. The main effects of this disorder are: lack of any sensation or pain, injuries to arms, legs and oral structures, fever during seasons of heat due to the inability to sweat, mental retardation, infection and scarring of the tongue, lips and gums,chronic infections of bones and joints, fractures, multiple scars, osteomyelitis and joint deformities, which may need amputation. Patients with this genetic disorder may not be able to feel aphysical orgasm.

People with this disorder can suffer major injuries without even noticing.