Today we are going to talk about Polio, The scientific name for Polio is , Poliomyelitis . There are multiple symptoms such as fever ,Sore throat , headache , vomiting , Fatigue , back pain, neck pain , stiffness all over the body , pain in arms and legs , and muscle weakness. The polio virus can affect you spinal cord which is in charge of movement in your body . This ends up causing you to become paralyzed. In most cases some people will get deformed legs or arms . This would prevent them from walking and doing everyday task. You might be asking,“how do you even get Polio ?’, well you get it multiply was since the disease is viral . You can get polio from because around feces of an infected person or contaminated water that is attached …show more content…
Doctors normally diagnosed polio by the symptoms since it really obvious when it polio . The scans that your doctor may recommend is a MRI or a CT scan so they can see images of your brain and spinal cord. There are no treatments for polio so far but there are some ways that you can subside the symptoms . When you have polio the doctor usually puts you on bed rest because you can really move around because most of the time your paralaysted and so that you wont get anyone affected by it or spread it even more . You can also take pain relievers that will help with the pain in certain body parts .There is really not a lot of things that you can do such as changing your lifestyle or nutrition because once again it's a viral infection . Anyone can get the disease but it might infect kids , elders , or people with a very weak immune system . After the huge polio outbreak most people in the higher income countries was forced to get vaccinated , but in other countries that are low income did have to resources o get vaccinated so they have a higher chance to get it . Polio is no longer that common as it use to be a few years back but it still exist in poor countries
Polio, formerly known as poliomyelitis, an infectious viral disease that affects the central nervous system and can cause temporary or permanent paralysis. A debilitating disease that was once the affliction of our very own republic. David Oshinsky’s Polio: An American Story chronicles polio’s progression in the United States, a feat it does quite well throughout the course of the novel.
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One of the other notable important advances was the “Conquest of Polio” this disease usually caused paralysis in the people who contracted the virus. Back then there...
Poliomyelitis was the term used by doctors to describe the condition in which the gray (polios) anterior matter of the spinal chord (myelos) was inflamed (-itis). Until a cure was discovered, no one had the slightest idea where "polio" had come from or why it paralyzed so many children. People learned later that, oddly enough, it was the improved sanitary conditions which caused children to be attacked by the virus. Since people were no longer in contact with open sewers and other unsanitary conditions which had exposed them to small amounts of the polio virus as infants, when paralysis is rare, the dis...
Poliomyelitis is a virus that infects the nerves of the spinal cord, and brain which leads to paralysis and or death (Piddock, 2004). Poliomyelitis is best known today as Polio, and Infantile Paralysis. Tonsillectomy polio would take over the lymph nodes in order to spread the infection throughout the body, leading to muscle paralysis in the limbs, and in some cases respiratory failure. Bulbar polio was a much more severe form, it affected the top of the spinal cord which caused paralysis and inability to swallow fluids (Rifkind, 2005). Polio was transmitted through ingesting materials contaminated by the virus found in feces. Children would play in public swimming pools, and ingest the contaminated water which lead to infection (Piddock, 2004). After the person ingested the virus, it would travel their intestinal tract, and eventually compromise their lymph nodes, making them unable to fight off the virus. Symptoms were like those of the flu, such as fever, headache, and upset stomach. The minority of people were able to let the virus run its course and it would be passed through their feces like any other virus. Others weren’t so lucky, those with compromised immune systems were unable to fight off the virus, the lymph nodes would fail to protect the nervous system causing paralysis once it reached the spinal cord (Piddock, 2004). Poliomyelitis has since then been eliminated in the United States because of the polio vaccine that is giv...
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Polio is a viral disease. It cripples thousands of people and infects even more every year. Even though millions are inoculated, and the polio disease has been successfully purged from hundreds of countries still thousands of people and developing countries are infected and still people are dying. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) polio affects the Central Nervous System, or CNS; by infesting the intestines and transmitting it into the nerves thought the blood vessels. There the virus spreads through the nerve cells to the brain stem or other motor units, while forever damaging the nerves.
Envision a life consumed by grayness and misfortune, slowly weakening the body from the inside with no proof of existence other than symptoms of a common cold. Dwindling away as skin begins to cling to bone, this monster, formally addressed as the Poliomyelitis (Polio) disease, finds its way to the nerves of the body as well as the grey areas of the spinal cord, leaving its host with dreadful affects throughout the body.Since its discovery in 1905, Polio has caused several epidemics throughout the years leaving many permanently paralyzed or even dead. Thankfully, scientists created the polio vaccination which lead to the nearly complete eradication of this disease. However, In order to ensure this disease does not spread as it once did before, people must come to understand Polio’s etiology, history and modern day epidemiology, as well as its proper response to treatment.
There are three types of Polio; Sub-Clinical, Non-Paralytic, and Paralytic. Approximately 95% of Polio cases are Sub-Clinical, victims may not have symptoms. Sub-Clinical Polio does not affect the central nervous system. Non-Paralytic does infect the central nervous system, has mild symptoms, and does not end in paralysis. Out of the three types of Polio the most serious and rarest form of Polio is Paralytic. It produces full or partial paralysis in its victims. There are three types of Paral...
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Moreover polio is a deadly disease that is caused by a highly contagious virus entering the nervous system in the brain or spinal cord causing temporary or permanent paralysis. There are three
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Pain behind the ear on the affected side of the face which may occur a day or two before the paralysis begins.
When hygienic conditions were poor polio attacked infants. The disease was spread by contaminated water and contact with fecal contamination. Many infants died when the conditions were poor. But as conditions improved the virus spread differently. It was spread more through playmates and family members, the contamination came from the nose and throat. By the early 1950s, twenty-five percent of paralytic cases occurred in people 21 years old or older.
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