通过合法大麻与大麻使用有关的神秘疾病在各州上升 [美国媒体]

NEW YORK -- 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.

在纽约，Lance Crowder得了严重腹痛和呕吐的毛病，已经持续超过两年，而当地的医生没有人能告诉他到底是怎么回事。最后，在印第安纳波利斯的一位急诊的内科医生有了个想法。



Lance Crowder

“The 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,” Crowder said.

Crowder说："他问我的第一个问题是，我是不是通过洗热水澡来获得慰藉。当他问我这个问题的时候，我嚎啕大哭，因为我知道他已经知道是怎么回事了。"

The answer was cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS. It’s caused by heavy, long-term use of various forms of marijuana. For unclear reasons, the nausea and vomiting are relieved by hot showers or baths.

答案就是，Crowder的症状是大麻剧吐综合症，简称CHS。这个病是由长期、重度的使用各种类型的大麻引发的。恶心和呕吐的症状可以通过洗热水澡来缓解，原因目前尚不清楚。

“They’ll often present to the emergency department three, four, five different times before we can sort this out,” said Dr. Kennon Heard, an emergency room physician at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, Colorado.

“在我们能解决这个问题之前，他们经常出现在急诊科三，四，五次”，一位科罗拉多州医科大学的急诊内科医生Kennon Heard如是说。



Dr. Kennon Heard

He co-authored a study 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.

他作为共同作者参与了一项研究，显示自从2009年以来，当医用大麻被广泛的使用，科罗拉多州的两所医院的急诊科接诊患有大麻剧吐综合症的病人几乎翻番。在2012年，科罗拉多州把使用大麻合法化。

“It is certainly something that, before legalization, we almost never saw,” Heard said. “Now we are seeing it quite frequently.”

“很肯定的是，在合法化之前，有一些我们几乎没见过的东西”，他说，“现在我们能经常见到了。”

Outside of Colorado, when patients do end up in an emergency room, the diagnosis is often missed. Partly because doctors don’t know about CHS, and partly because patients don’t want to admit to using a substance that’s illegal.

在科罗拉多州以外，当病人们最后来到急诊科的时候，却往往没有被做出正确的诊断。一部分是因为医生们不知道大麻剧吐综合症这种病，另一方面是因为病人不想承认使用了一些非法的东西。

CHS can lead to dehydration and kidney failure, but usually resolves within days of stopping drug use. That’s what happened with Crowder, who has been off all forms of marijuana for seven months.

大麻剧吐综合症能导致脱水以及肾衰竭，但是一般在停止服用大麻后的几天里症状得到缓解。这就是在Crowder身上发生的事，他已经远离各种各样的大麻7个月了。

“Now all kinds of ambition has come back. I desire so much more in life and, at 37 years old, it’s a little late to do it, but better now than never,”he said.

他说：“现在我所有的信心都回来了。我才37岁，渴望享受生活，虽然有点晚，但好过从来没有。”

CHS has only been recognized for about the past decade, and nobody knows exactly how many people suffer from it. But as more states move towards the legalization of marijuana, emergency room physicians like Dr. Heard are eager to make sure both doctors and patients have CHS on their radar.

大麻剧吐综合症是过去十年间才被认识的病症，而且没人知道受其困扰的具体人数。但是由于越来越多的州将大麻使用合法化，像Heard医生这样的急诊内科医生热切的希望医生和身患大麻剧吐综合症的病人们能相应配合，将此事得到监控。



OTM861 8 days ago
I know MANY MANY people who have been smoking weed since the 60's with no sign of CHS. So for me this article is bogus. Change the C to a B and drop the H and you have what this story amounts to. BS.

我知道很多很多的人从60年代就开始抽大麻，却没有这个什么大麻剧吐综合症。所以对我来说，这篇文章内容都是假的。把这个什么CHS的C改成B，再把H去掉，你就知道这篇文章在讲什么了，对，就是扯淡。

MJBINDY 8 days ago
While Marijuana has this 'mystery' disease....  Alcohol simply kills people, every day.  Alcohol contributes directly to Diabetes, Liver cancer, throat cancer, stomach cancer, heart disease...  where cannabis... not so much.  

当这篇文章宣传大麻导致“神秘的”疾病的同时...酒精正在杀死民众，每天都是。酒精能直接导致糖尿病、肝癌、喉癌、胃癌、心脏病...大麻剧吐症？算个毛啊。

8 days ago
Smoked home grown for 30 years and have never ever heard of such a thing, CHS? more like CRAP.

我在家抽大麻都30年了，从来没听说过这种事。什么大麻剧吐综合症？听起来更像是放屁。

DOCTORFINE 7 days ago 
My ten closest friends have all smoked pot for 50 years with ZERO health damage.
Meanwhile the hard driving executive buddies I have that all drink have suffered early death, divorces sometimes violent and in some cases committed suicide.
And many of my relatives have young children being fed prescription amphetamines for ADHD and they act erratically, argue and fight with the nearest person and have delusional personalities.
I'm just saying that as an intelligent well educated grown person I simply have not seen a better intoxicant than pot.
After being diagnosed with a dread disease i got a license to smoke it and have lost a ton of fat gained from alcohol over the years and now I feel twenty years younger and at age 70 look like a much younger person to all my friends (and YES they have told me this---not just my own mirror---haha).
Could this story be a "plant" put here by big Pharma and the Alcohol industry to try to destroy marijuana's newfound popularity?
Just sayin...

我最好的十个朋友都抽大麻50年了，身体健康一点毛病都没有。
同时我身体力行的感受到所有的酒精饮料都能导致早死、离婚、家暴以及一些导致自杀的情况。
还有我的许多亲戚的小孩由于有多动症，他们的行为并不稳定，和靠近的人争吵并斗殴，并且还有妄想症。然而被开了安非他明（译者注：一种有毒品副作用的医用镇静剂）的处方。
我在此作为一位受过良好教育、智商正常的成年人，不得不说我从来没见过任何一种酒精饮料能比大麻好。
在我被诊断患了一种可怕的疾病之后，我弄了个抽大麻的许可，然后我减肥了，去掉了一大块因为常年喝酒增加的体重。现在我感觉年轻了20岁，我现在70了，朋友们说我看上去就像个年轻人。（是的他们就这么说的，不是我自己照镜子的感觉，哈哈）
这个报道是不是那些大药房和酒精产业想要摧毁大麻的栽赃行径？

PAUSE2REFLECT 7 days ago
Cases "doubled"? From what to what? 103 to 206? And it occurs exclusively among heavy users? Nothing is without some risks. This isn't even in the ballpark of a risk that should be considered relevant to decriminalization of marijuana.
P.S. I never touch the stuff. I just consider it vile that we deprive people of liberty over this plant.

病人“翻番”？从多少到多少？比如103变成206吗？还就重度使用者才得这病？做什么都有风险啊。这风险甚至还比不上呆在棒球场的风险，怎么能歧视大麻呢。
ps.我没抽过这玩意。我只是觉得剥夺人民抽大麻的权利是邪恶的。