CHETTIAR COMMUNITY

4. Chettiyar Community Suffers from Genetically-Caused Hazard

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INDIA, July 30, 2006: The Arya Vaisya Chettiyar Community is fatally allergic to anesthesia. Mysteriously, this condition has been reported in Germany too, setting researchers on a controversial racial trail, reports T.S. Sreenivasa Raghavan. In several hospitals in Tamil Nadu, before administering anesthesia, doctors ask patients for their caste. It has been discovered that members of the Arya Vaisya Chettiyar clan, one of the 24 sects of Chettiyars, are fatally allergic to some anesthetic administrations like the muscle relaxant Suxamethonium, also known as Scoline. Arya Vaisyas are primarily a trading community, and believed to be so since the time of Rig Veda. They are spread throughout the country and have surnames like Setty, Chetty, Chetti, Chettiar, Gupta, Rao and Sreshty. Their mysterious allergy to Scoline has also become their most exciting affliction. For, it has been discovered that communities in various parts of the world, believed to be in t he path of the rumored Aryan exodus or migration, exhibit the same condition. Multanis in Pakistan, certain tribes of Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Egypt, and many sections of Europeans carry this defect. What's more striking is the fact that it is widespread in Germany too.

Dr. J. Balavenkatasubramanian is a practicing anesthesiologist in Coimbatore, and from the Arya Vaisya community. He explains the character of what has turned out to be Aryans' bitter foe--Scoline. When you administer anesthesia, it should lose its effect after a while and the patient should be able to contract the joints. Certain enzymes make this possible. But, in the case of Arya Vaisyas, these enzymes are absent either fully or partially, which can prove fatal in the absence of appropriate intervention. For the full article, click on the URL above.