Etiology: Poliomyelitis aka Polio, is a crippling and potentially death causing disease caused by the Poliovirus. Polio contains RNA and has three types of serotypes. The virus can spread in so many ways. By contact by infected feces, contact with phlegm/mucus from the nose or mouth, or by person to person contact. It starts with entering through the mouth and nose, replicates and spreads in throat and gastrointestinal tract. Then potentially gets absorbed and disbursed out into the blood and to the lymphatic system. Incubation period ranges from seven to fourteen days. So about a week or two. Which it can affect the CNS cells, then it will replicate motor neurons in the brain stem. Furthermore, leading to damage in nervous cells and destruction
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Lastly, the muscles in your arms. All of this going on in your body will cause a person to be weak in motion and movement. Causing patients to be in wheel chairs and wear braces.
Treatment: There is no cure for Polio, once a person obtains it the best way is to treat the disease by medicines and therapies. Medications such as NSAIDs, like Acetaminophen to help relieve low level pain. Therapy are also big factors of helping reduce pain. Such as visiting a Physical Therapist or Massage Therapist for relief of muscle pain. Surgery might be an option on the table but it can be really risky on a patient because it depends of the severity on the patient’s polio.
The three options above are the best ways to cope with Polio as a disease. These are the top recommended ways to live with Polio.
Prevention: Medical breakthrough came through during the mid-fifties. Dr. Jonas Salk came up with the first polio vaccine. The Inactive Polio Vaccine (IPV) which contains inactive killed strains of the three poliovirus types. Giving through injection. IPV makes antibodies into the blood stream, then preventing the virus into the CNS protects the body against
Lastly, the muscles in your arms. All of this going on in your body will cause a person to be weak in motion and movement. Causing patients to be in wheel chairs and wear braces.
Treatment: There is no cure for Polio, once a person obtains it the best way is to treat the disease by medicines and therapies. Medications such as NSAIDs, like Acetaminophen to help relieve low level pain. Therapy are also big factors of helping reduce pain. Such as visiting a Physical Therapist or Massage Therapist for relief of muscle pain. Surgery might be an option on the table but it can be really risky on a patient because it depends of the severity on the patient’s polio.
The three options above are the best ways to cope with Polio as a disease. These are the top recommended ways to live with Polio.
Prevention: Medical breakthrough came through during the mid-fifties. Dr. Jonas Salk came up with the first polio vaccine. The Inactive Polio Vaccine (IPV) which contains inactive killed strains of the three poliovirus types. Giving through injection. IPV makes antibodies into the blood stream, then preventing the virus into the CNS protects the body against