People With No Pain

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Congenital insensitivity to pain, is a rare untreatable genetic disease that makes people unable to feel pain.  They can feel light touching, like a hug or a handshake, but cannot feel a great deal of pressure. The more common version of this disease is Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis; when the senses of a person with this disease are completely normal other than the inability to sense extreme temperatures , hot or cold, disabling the body’s ability to cool itself by sweating. This is because CIPA only disrupts the development of the small nerve fibers that carry sensations of pain, heat and cold to the brain.