Adrenal Mankas
Meaning "lack of adrenaline", Adrenal Mankas is characterized by low production of the adrenaline hormones in the victim.
Causes
An extremely rare genetic disease, Adrenal Mankas may otherwise be caused by substantial damage to the middle torso, specifically above the kidneys, or by another disease damaging or destroying the adrenal glands.
Symptoms
Affected subjects suffer low response times, which in battle may prove fatal, but in intense or stressful situations in which adrenaline would otherwise be produced it may cause paralisys or even death.
Additionally, observed symptoms are weight loss, general muscle weakness, fatigue, low blood pressure, nausea, hyperpigmentation (darkening of the skin due to increased melanin) and a craving for salt (due to extreme loss of sodium through the urine).
Treatment
While the genetic version of the disease requires lifelong treatment and regular injections of cortisol, in its acquired form it can be treated by merely replacing the damaged organs. It is, however, a complicated and dangerous operation that only experienced Albor surgeons can get to term properly.
Prognosis
When rightly treated, outcomes are typically good and most people that suffered the disease can expect to live relatively normal lives. Genetic cases must, however, watch out for episodes when the body is strained or in exercise, often needing emergency treatment with intravenous injections to treat the crisis if they have one.
Individuals with the disease untreated have a more than doubled mortality rate, and it may combine with other ailments bolstering the effects of both.
Affected Groups
The disease can affect people of any age, sex, or ethnicity, but adults between 30 and 50 years of age have shown to be particularly susceptible.
There have been observed cases of animals other than humans suffering the disease.
Type
Physiological
Origin
Natural
Rarity
Rare
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