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 Symptoms :

Most infected individuals have no symptoms . Paralytic disease 1%


  1.   high fever

  2. Intense muscle pain from spasm and weakness

  3.  loss of muscle reflexes

  4.  paralysis asymptomatic

  5. Affect larger proximal muscles specially legs

  6.  infants develop acute flaccid paralysis floppy baby syndrome 

  7. Diaphragm motor nerves are affected difficulty in  breathing


Diagnosis:

  1. Besed on Polio virus recovery from stool sample throat swab

  2.  lumbar puncture cerebral fluid removed from Lamba Sach might have high white blood cells or poliovirus RNA


Treatment:


  1. Pain medicines for muscle spasm bladder decompression

  2.  respiratory support for trouble breathing by Iron lung machine.


Polio vaccine and post polio syndrome will be discussed in next video.

Comments

  1. LinDecember 22, 2020 at 6:04 PM

    I'm a 70 yr.old female
    I had polio as a child
    Both legs. I'm getting symptoms, thought I would investigate and found you on utube. You are the most current. Thank you for making this easy to understand, Lin

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    1. Snigdha goswamiDecember 27, 2020 at 1:08 AM

      Hi Lin. I think you are having post polio syndrome. You can check out what it is. I'll make a video on post polio syndrome soon. I suggest you to consult a doctor also.
      Thank you so much. Have a good day and I hope You'll find a solution.

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  2. LinDecember 22, 2020 at 6:07 PM

    Linstratton@gmail.com

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