Irritability
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| ICD-10 | R45.4 |
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| ICD-9 | 799.2 |
Irritability is an excessive response to stimuli. The term is used for both the physiological reaction to stimuli and for the pathological, abnormal or excessive sensitivity to stimuli.
Irritability may be demonstrated in behavioral responses to both physiological and behavioral stimuli including environmental, situational, sociological, and emotional stimuli.
[edit] Conditions
Irritability can occur in people experiencing any of a variety of conditions, including:
- anxiety
- alcoholism
- anemia
- Asperger syndrome
- autism
- attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
- bipolar disorder
- caesium toxicity
- combat stress reaction
- constipation
- depression
- diabetes
- drug use
- dysmenorrhea
- fatigue
- fever
- generalized anxiety disorder
- headache
- hunger
- huntingtons disease
- hyperthermia
- hyperthyroidism
- hypothyroidism
- hypoglycemia
- insomnia
- lead poisoning
- mastoiditis
- meningitis
- menstrual cycle
- obsessive compulsive disorder
- pain
- Parkinson's disease
- premenstrual syndrome
- posttraumatic stress disorder
- schizophrenia
- sleep apnea
- stress
- rabies
- thyroid disease
- withdrawal
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