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Danny has a long history of alcohol abuse. He prefers whiskey and drinks it daily. When he was jailed for several days after an arrest for DWI, he began to experience tingling sensations over his body that felt like "a million ants scurrying over his skin." Knowing Danny's excessive consumption of alcohol, what might this unusual sensation be labeled?

A) Formication
B) Cirrhosis
C) FAS
D) Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome

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Answer: Formication

Step-by-step explanation:

This is when you believe something like a million ant is on you or a million spiders formication this is a (feeling).

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Answer:

This symptom is seen in case of Cirrhosis disease.

Step-by-step explanation:

Cirrhosis is also called as liver cirrhosis, a condition where liver dysfunction takes place due to excessive intake of alcohol.This is a long time process and the scar tissue takes the place of normal tissue present in the liver.

The susual symptoms include tiredness,weakness,itchy, swelling of legs, yellow skin, fluid buildup in the abdomen.

Other impotrtant factors that causes this disease are hepatitis B,hepatitis C, non alcoholic fatty acid liver disease etc.

This disease can be prevented by applying proper vaccine,antviral medications, steroid medication, ursodiol,liver transplant etc.

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