Frey's syndrome
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Frey's Syndrome is a food related syndrome which can be congenital or not, and can persist for life.
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[edit] Symptoms
The symptoms of Frey's Syndrome are redness and sweating on the cheek area adjacent to the ear. They can appear when the affected person eats, sees, thinks about or talks about certain kinds of food which produce strong salivation. Observing sweating in the region after eating of a lemon wedge may be diagnostic.
[edit] Causes
Frey's Syndrome often develops following parotid gland surgery; it is believed that autonomic fibers inappropriately innervate cutaneous sweat glands in the cheek. It is also a rare complication of diabetes mellitus.
[edit] Treatments
Treatments include:
- injection of botulinum toxin type A
- surgical transection of the nerve fibers
[edit] Also known as
- Baillarger’s syndrome
- Dupuy’s syndrome
- Frey-Baillarger syndrome
