Extractions: Category : Health Centers Mental Health (Mental Disorders) Munchausen Syndrome Alternate Names : Factitious Disorder, Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, MSP Attribution Munchausen syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which a person consciously fakes the symptoms of a physical disorder for attention. The person may have many medical tests and surgical procedures. Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSP) is a parenting disorder. The parents, usually mothers, fake symptoms in their children. The child is then subjected to unnecessary tests or surgeries. What is going on in the body? A person with Munchausen syndrome fakes or pretends to have symptoms. Sometimes the symptoms are those of a specific illness. The individual fakes symptoms for psychological reasons rather than for financial gain or to get out of responsibilities. The person convincingly presents with intentional symptoms. For example, someone may inject germs into his or her own bloodstreams to cause illness. What are the causes and risks of the condition?
Extractions: and receive a tax deduction Other ways to help can be found here Munchausen's Syndrome refers to a psychiatric disorder where patients pretend to have illnesses, and therefore are subjected to many medical tests and surgical procedures. Of course, these would never have been performed if the patient had not tried to fabricate them. However, the most notorious patients have often had dozens of surgical procedures for factitious (false) symptoms. Thus, this is a form of self-mutilation. Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy (MSP) is a parenting disorder where parents, usually the mother, fabricate symptoms in their children, thus subjecting the child to unnecessary medical tests and/or surgical procedures. In some cases, the parents also inflict injury and can kill their children in the process. MSP is not rare in Apnea Programs. Apnea is the perfect disorder for MSP, because infants appear normal between episodes. Therefore, a parent can bring her baby to a medical facility, fabricate a history of an apparent life threatening event, and the baby will be admitted, many tests performed, sometimes even surgery (such as tracheostomomies) are performed. MSP parents can be quite good at this, often switching from doctor to doctor so that it is difficult for one individual to put it all together. There have been documented cases of MSP in apnea clinics. However, these are much rare than "true" infant apnea.
Extractions: Symptoms may not be real The term Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy was first coined by paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow, whose evidence has been challenged in several high profile cot death cases. It is a highly controversial condition, which some doubt even exists. What is Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP)? MSbP is parenting disorder that comes in two forms. The children of people with MSbP will either have a fabricated illness or an induced illness. In fact, both the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Department of Health now use the term FII for the condition rather than MSbP. Fabricated illness involves a parent claiming that their child is ill, when they have actually made up the symptoms. This can involve a high degree of deception. For instance, a parent may claim that their child has passed blood in its urine, and will present samples suggesting this is the case. However, following tests, it will become apparent that the parent has actually pricked their own finger and dropped blood into the sample.
Extractions: Graphics version Change to UK Edition BBC Sport Home News Front Page ... Week at a Glance Health Contents: Medical notes Wednesday, 3 March, 2004, 10:10 GMT The term Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy was first coined by paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow, whose evidence has been challenged in several high profile cot death cases. It is a highly controversial condition, which some doubt even exists. What is Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP)? MSbP is parenting disorder that comes in two forms. The children of people with MSbP will either have a fabricated illness or an induced illness. In fact, both the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Department of Health now use the term FII for the condition rather than MSbP. Fabricated illness involves a parent claiming that their child is ill, when they have actually made up the symptoms. This can involve a high degree of deception. For instance, a parent may claim that their child has passed blood in its urine, and will present samples suggesting this is the case. However, following tests, it will become apparent that the parent has actually pricked their own finger and dropped blood into the sample.
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Extractions: Munchausen by proxy syndrome (MBPS) is one of the most harmful forms of child abuse. It is also perplexing. MBPS involves an apparent deeply caring mother who repeatedly fabricates symptoms or provokes actual illnesses in her helpless infant or child. MBPS was first described in 1977 by Meadow; since then more than 200 MBPS related articles have appeared, the majority being case descriptions. Understanding the dynamics of this disorder is of utmost importance because growing evidence indicates that it is more common than previously believed and it is devastating if not fatal for the children and infants. It is also important to mention the effects MBPS has on others who become involved in this cases, particularly nurses and physicians. Maybe the most important aspect of this syndrome is the immense ability of the mother to fool doctors and the susceptibility of physicians to her manipulations. The hospital, which is the most common setting for MBPS cases, is where as much as 75% of the MBPS-related morbidity occurs as a consequence of attempts by physicians to diagnose and treat the affected child or infant. More than 98% of MBPS cases involve female perpetrators. Even the most experienced pediatricians often miss evident clues left by these mothers. Although there are many case reports of MBPS, no population-based prevalence data exist. The average length of time to establish a diagnosis of MBPS generally exceeds 6 months; often a sibling has died of undiagnosed causes before the MBPS is uncovered. Jani et al found that during a 2-year period nearly 50% of patients discharged against medical advice satisfied at least three of six characteristics of MBPS.
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Extractions: This important book reviews the current state of knowledge of Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, a type of child abuse which causes wide concern. Two main areas are covered, which will be of particular interest: new directions in research, and treatment of the perpetrator in and outside the family. The book also considers the ethical and legal issues raised by this problematic behaviour, which involves many different types of professionals and has a heavy cost not only for services but also for victims and perpetrators. Unlike other books, this volume provides a multidisciplinary perspective, with input from social workers, paediatricians, child-psychiatrists and lawyers, among others. It also offers an international perspective, with contributors from the USA, Canada and Australia. Contents: A 20-Year Overview (A Bentovim) The Extraordinary Case of Mrs H (E V Welldon) The Detection of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (M P Samuels) The Role of the Guardian Ad Litem (S Pizzey) The Social Work Role in Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (J Gray) Risk Assessment (M Eminson) Treatment of Perpetrators (K Bluglass) Treatment and Outcome for Victims (I Mitchell) Ethical and Public Policy Issues in the Management of Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) (G Adshead)
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Extractions: PatientPlus articles are written for doctors and so the language can be technical. However, some people find that they add depth to the articles found in the other sections of this website which are written for non-medical people. Synonym: factitious disorder This is an extreme form of factitious disorder, in which patients present with feigned or simulated illnesses. The patient gains many hospital admissions through deception, either feigning surgical illness, hoping for a laparotomy (laparotimophilia migrans), or bleeding alarmingly (haemorrhagica histrionica) or presenting with curious fits (neurologica diabolica) or false heart attacks (cardiopathia fantastica). . These 'hospital hobos' may cause themselves considerable injury. Diagnosis is extremely difficult at first presentation (unless inconsistencies in the story are apparent). Classically patients have a simulated illness, pathological lying (pseudologia fantastica), and wander from place to place (peregrination). A typical example might involve a patient who presents with an abdominal surgical wound breaking down who is subsequently seen to be rubbing dirt into the wound and when challenged with this, he immediately discharges himself. There may be a history of a large number of childhood illnesses and operations. Most cases are men (frequently with criminal records and past sociopathic behaviour) who make multiple, often dramatic presentations to hospital. There is a predominantly female subset with a milder form of factitious disorder who exhibit a single set of symptoms instead of a myriad of different symptoms over time. These women show less evidence of personality dysfunction, have a strong tendency to form personal bonds with a single physician or group of physicians, often work in medical settings, and are usually polite, conforming to medical staff - making them much more difficult to identify.
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Munchausen's Syndrome By Proxy" Dr. Feldman first defines munchausen s syndrome People with factitious Some websites include in munchausen s syndrome those harming themselves to get http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~streater/munchausen.html
Extractions: Munchausen's syndrome by proxy (MSP) is a psychological condition claimed to lead to infant- and child-abuse. It was so-named in 1977 by Sir Roy Meadow and is a variant of Munchausen's syndrome, invented and so-named by Sir Richard Asher in 1951. MSP has been diagnosed in many cases of cot death, and about 250 mothers in the UK have been convicted of killing their babies in the last 15 years. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, more have been deprived of their children on the basis of this idea. As a scientist, I am amazed that such a theory is accepted by doctors, since there is scant scientific evidence for it. There is, of course, evidence for SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), infanticide and the intentional harming of children. It is the diagnosis of MSP to explain these deaths and diseases that must be regarded as not scientifically proved. I have found two websites with a definition of MSP. The first is that of Dr. Marc Feldman and the second is that of Dr. Huynh
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Extractions: PDF Version Search Send-to-Friend Health Library Home ... Mental Health by Monica Zangwill, MD, MPH Most of us hate being sick. You feel terrible. You often look terrible. And sometimes the treatments are worse than the disease. So, would anyone actually pretend to be sick when they're really not? Yes, say experts. Patients with factitious disorders do just that. "People with factitious disorders, including Munchausen's syndrome, the most severe type of factitious disorder, feign or produce illness in themselves for internal gratification," says Marc Feldman, MD, co-editor of The Spectrum of Factitious Disorders and professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. They will deliberately lie about symptoms or hurt themselves to appear sick, he says, because they have a psychological drive to assume the sick role. The attention and caring from loved ones and medical professionals temporarily soothes their psychological drive to make themselves sick. Once that attention is gone, however, they often feel the need to lie all over again to regain the attention. They differ from someone who fakes an illness to get a tangible goal like disability payments or a day off from work. This person is called a malingerer. The motivation for people with factitious disorders is all internal. They also differ from hypochondriacs , who are unaware that they are making up symptoms.
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Extractions: Contents list for this issue See also Jureidini et al. More articles on Paediatrics More articles on Psychiatry Download a pdf version of this article ... Search PubMed for related articles For Debate "Munchausen by proxy syndrome": not just pathological parenting but also problematic doctoring? Another view. Kieran T Moran MJA Introduction Competing interests References Author details Much has been written about the motivation of perpetrators in Munchausen by proxy syndrome (MBPS), but little, as far as I know, about the motivation of doctors who "collude" with parents in these behaviours. In general, I have no quibble with the analysis by Jureidini and colleagues. It is interesting, as they have done, to put forward a theory as to why doctors who are motivated to make "the diagnosis" might fail to recognise invented illness; however, the motivation of the "relentless investigator" is not the only one that should be examined. I do agree that children are more at risk from doctors who are enthusiastic about making a medical diagnosis and who ignore the social aspects of the consultation. However, concentrating on the motivation of the parent in MBPS cases has not proven useful in practice because of the complex psychopathology underlying such behaviour, and I doubt that focusing on the motivation of doctors will improve practice for similar reasons.
