Vicar syndrome or transfer is a variant of Mnchausen syndrome, in which instead of causing the symptoms themselves, the carrier causes or simulates the disease in another person, usually a dependent child.
Transfer or proxy syndrome is a term coined by Roy Meadow in 1977. He described this syndrome by referring to adults as “patients with spectacular medical records, full of lies and inventions, in an alleged attempt to ensure safety and hospital medical care. “
- It is not named after its discoverer.
- But Karl Friedrich Hieronymus: the Baron of M.
- C.
- Hausen (1720–1797).
- The 16th-century German.
- The Baron of Munich.
- Told terrifying stories about his exploits as a soldier and sportsman.
- By power? Because this is the case where one person invents someone else’s symptoms.
That same year, Burman and Stevens met a daughter whose mother suffers from this syndrome and is the cause of it in their two sons, this behavior was called Polle syndrome, Polle syndrome and Mnchausen proxy syndrome refer to the same type of behavior.
Mnchausen transfer or proxy syndrome is a particular form of abuse where a parent (usually the mother) simulates the existence or causes symptoms or signs of illness in the child in order to seek medical assistance, costly or risky diagnoses and treatments.
Power munchausen syndrome is a form of high-risk child abuse. Diagnosis is complicated and often survives for a long time in the person without anyone being able to identify him. In addition, as we have already pointed out, this can lead to serious complications and even the death of the child.
To better explain what we’re talking about, we’ll illustrate this syndrome with a real case, this is a story that was published in the Daily Mail.
Kaylene Bowen, a 34-year-old mother, was arrested for seriously injury to her son and admitted that she had convinced several doctors for eight years that the child was seriously ill and even claimed that her son needed a lung transplant, among others. other symptoms, which led to unnecessary surgery. Since birth, this mother has been in the hospital with her son 323 times in total.
The girl entered the O. R. 13 times on suspicion of illness, according to the Daily Mail. Kaylene even created websites to raise money to pay for the expensive treatments her child was supposed to undergo.
Depending on this real case, this mother could suffer from Mnchausen syndrome by power. As mentioned above, this is a form of child abuse in which a parent induces the child to the actual or apparent symptoms of a disease.
This syndrome is considered a fictional disorder. A fictitious disorder is characterized by the appearance of symptoms deliberately produced by the patient with the intention of receiving medical attention and assuming the role of patient.
A patient with this disorder deliberately creates the symptoms of a disease or exaggerates its symptoms, thus preventing healing, because what he really wants is constant attention from the medical team, he may end up undergoing unnecessary surgeries and examinations to maintain his role as a patient.
The risk is that the patient ends up getting really sick, for example, think of a patient who intentionally takes a drug that produces certain symptoms but does not inform the doctor at the time of consultation, the doctor does not know the true origin of his pathology So the most logical thing is that they subject the suspected patient to a large number of tests , some of them with some risks that would be justified if the disease were “real”.
Mnchausen syndrome is characterized by an uncontrollable obsession or desire to be seen by doctors, an obsession that leads patients to visit several hospitals, often with false or invented names to avoid suspicion.
The World Health Organization (WHO) calls these people “pilgrim patients. “These people roam hospitals in urgent need of treatment for their false diseases. There is a very famous case of this syndrome which is that of an Englishman named William Mcllroy (1906-1983) This person has been operated on 400 times. In fact, he spent only six months of his life outside a clinic.
When a person suffers from Munchausen syndrome by power, there are a number of symptoms. Sometimes they’re very difficult to identify. Let’s take a look at some of them:
This syndrome is presented by psychological problems in the adult, it is almost always a mother who abuses her child when trying to keep him under constant medical supervision, exposing her to a situation of risk to her health, it can be said to be a rare syndrome whose cause is still unknown.
As we have seen, indirect Mnchausen disease is a “rare” disease, perhaps because it is a difficult problem to detect. We believe there are many more cases than we know.