DISTANT SPREAD OF TOXIN EFFECT. Postmarketing reports indicate that the effects of DYSPORTÂ® and all botulinum toxin products may spread from the area of injection to produce symptoms consistent with botulinum toxin effects.
Not to be confused with Agonal heart rhythm. Agonal respiration, gasping respiration or agonal breathing is an abnormal pattern of breathing and brainstem reflex characterized by gasping, labored breathing, accompanied by strange vocalizations and myoclonus. Possible causes include cerebral ischemia, extreme hypoxia or even anoxia.
What conditions might cause intermittent, very sharp, occasional, involuntary, small gasps of breath in one's breathing pattern as one is lying down to sleep? The gasps are very limited... almost as if a small chamber just the size of a few tablespoons contained a vacuum and suddenly opened itself up to scoop in air under pressure.