{"id":287697,"date":"2016-12-29T16:53:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T15:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mysterious-illness-tied-to-marijuana-use-on-the-rise-in-states-with-legal-weed\/"},"modified":"2016-12-29T16:53:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T15:53:54","slug":"mysterious-illness-tied-to-marijuana-use-on-the-rise-in-states-with-legal-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mysterious-illness-tied-to-marijuana-use-on-the-rise-in-states-with-legal-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Illness Tied to Marijuana Use on the Rise in States with Legal Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>For more than two years, Lance Crowder was having severe abdominal pain and vomiting, and no local doctor could figure out why. Finally, an emergency room physician in Indianapolis had an idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first question he asked was if I was taking hot showers to find relief. When he asked me that question, I basically fell into tears because I knew he had an answer,\u201d Crowder said.<\/p>\n<p>The answer was cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS. It\u2019s caused by heavy, long-term use of various forms of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/marijuana-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\">marijuana<\/a>. For unclear reasons, the nausea and vomiting are relieved by hot showers or baths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ll often present to the emergency department three, four, five different times before we can sort this out,\u201d said Dr. Kennon Heard, an emergency room physician in Aurora, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4469074\/\" target=\"_blank\">co-authored a study<\/a> showing that since 2009, when medical marijuana became widely available, emergency room visits diagnoses for CHS in two Colorado hospitals nearly doubled. In 2012, the state legalized recreational marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is certainly something that, before legalization, we almost never saw,\u201d Heard said. \u201cNow we are seeing it quite frequently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outside of Colorado, when patients do end up in an emergency room, the diagnosis is often missed. Partly because doctors don\u2019t know about CHS, and partly because patients don\u2019t want to admit to using a substance that\u2019s illegal.<\/p>\n<p>CHS can lead to dehydration and kidney failure, but usually resolves within days of stopping drug use&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/mysterious-illness-tied-to-marijuana-use-on-the-rise-in-states-with-legal-weed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than two years, Lance Crowder was having severe abdominal pain and vomiting, and no local doctor could figure out why. Finally, an emergency room physician in Indianapolis had an idea. \u201cThe first question he asked was if I was taking hot showers to find relief. When he asked me that question, I basically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}