will poliomyelitis kill me?

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Is polymyositis related with poliomyelitis?

Answer 1

Usually not: In more than 90% of cases, polio does not affect the brain or spinal cord. Complete recovery is then expected. However, when the brain an spinal cord are affected, chances of death increase, but recovery with disability is more common than death.

Answer 2

? today ?: Most patients would have this gut virus & recover without problems. If/when the few that developed myelitis (an attack of the nervous system causing injury to nerves) the outcome was variable. It could paralyze a limb or the breathing muscle. Survival depended on complications/recovery.Although vaccination has eliminated the problem in North America it persists in parts of the world & could return

Answer 3

Exposure to virus: The oral secretions of an infected patient are contageous before the onset of symptoms & up to two weeks. The patients stool will contain virus for weeks. You can be exposed to droplets of a cough& the virus can be active for days at room temperature on surfaces. Touch it & touch your mouth & you are exposed. It is a human to human only germ, no pets or insects.

Answer 4

Polio: Polio is an enterovirus and is spread from person to person through person to person contact, inadequate hand washing after using the bathroom, drinking contaminated water or sharing utensils with a person who has polio.

Answer 5

Oral secretion/stool: The virus is active in the oral secretions of an infected patient from shortly before the onset of symptoms for up to 2 weeks. It is excreted in the stool for several weeks after the onset of illness. The virus is stable for days at room temperature. Contact with any viral material on hands or inhaled as droplets can pass the infection.

Answer 6

Spreading polio: Polio viruses are gastrointestinal viruses spread by hand to mouth, ingesting contaminated water, using contaminated utensils.

Answer 7

3 strains 5 outcomes: There are 3 strains of the virus. Infected people can have 5 basic outcomes. 90-95% are asymptomatic, showing no illnes.Abortive illness is a brief flu like process. Nonparalytic polio is longer & marked by neck&spine rigidity but no parylisis.Paralytic polio adds paralysis to the symptoms & some die. Some survivors of paralytic polio have a post polio syndrome (new weakness) 30-40 yrs later.

Answer 8

Polio is motor disor: There are 3 types of polio virus and a few other viruses that can mimic polio. Polio virus may cause an encephalitis, from which most recover. However, it causes its major damage when it effects the motor nerve cells in the spinal cord or brain stem, where it causes weakness or even paralysis.

Answer 9

Spina bifida: yes it is congenital, born with it and it would not likely cause only occasional back pain. Diagnostic imaging can confirm or deny. Physical therapy can manage symptoms

Answer 10

Possibly: Spina Bifida occulta is often an incidental finding when someone develops back pain and has an x-ray done. This is due to incomplete fusion of the spinous process during development and is congenital. An MRI could be helpful to examine the spinal cord to see if there is and tethering. Discuss with you Doc.

Answer 11

Unimmunized: Maternal antibodies often protect a baby for their first weeks, after which they are at risk. Mortality and degree of disability was greater after the age of puberty when the disease was prevalent. Death often came within the first two wks.

Answer 12

Polio: Poliomyelitis is now almost nonexistent in the western world - travel abroad to countries like pakistan and parts of central africa have an increased risk but if you have been vaccinated the risk is low.

Answer 13

Polio: Poliomyelitis is mostly eradicated in the modern world due to vaccines, and the disease exists mainly in feudal and primitive countries such as iran. It is caused by a virus which passes into the GI tract and then enters the spine. It affects the nerve cell body causing severe focal weakness and muscular atrophy, but can allow prevent breathing.

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