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Changes from normal weather to hot dry heat (Sharav) or cold rainy weather (Bora) evoked specific reactions of neurohormone secretion in 500 female weather-sensitive patients studied in Jerusalem (Israel). Urinary 17-KS increased only during the weather front period, whereas 17-OH increased steadily during the weather front and heat period. Adrenaline and noradrenaline decreased during both the weather front and the following heat period, clinically presenting all symptoms of adrenal medulla exhaustion. Serotonin increased during the weather front period and returned to normal thereafter, whether it was followed by a hot spell or a cold period, whereas 5-HIAA was increased throughout the weather front and hot period. Clinically, serotonin overproduction manifested itself as the serotonin irritation syndrome (migraine, etc.). Patients suffering from occult hyperthyroidism reacted with an increase of urinary thyroxine and histamine as soon as a weather front arrived with the clinical signs of slight hyperthyroidism, especially tachycardia. The serotonin irritation syndrome and the hyperthyroidism were prevented and cured by negative air ionisation treatment in 75% or 45% of the cases respectively.
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Sulman, F.G., Levy, D., Pfeifer, Y. et al. Effects of the sharav and bora on urinary neurohormone excretion in 500 weather-sensitive females. Int J Biometeorol 19, 202–209 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01460019
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