Poliomyelitis, also known as Polio, is an infectious disease caused by the polio virus. This disease can spread from person to person and can invade an infected person’s brain and spinal cord, causing paralysis. Symptoms are seen rarely for this illness, but if seen it’s usually flu like symptoms. There are three types of polio, sub-clinical, paralytic, and nonparalytic. Young children, pregnant women, and people with low immunity are more susceptible to this disease. This disease spreads from person to person through contact with feces. Poliovirus can only infect humans and it is contagious. First, the virus enters a person’s body through their mouth. Then, the virus stays in their throat and reproduces. The virus
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Patients with polio can be given supportive therapy and fluids to relieve symptoms. The creation of polio vaccines have hugely impacted the population of potential polio threat. Polio vaccines have help reduce the number of polio cases drastically over the years. Research states that polio are 90% effective in the prevention of this disease. Even if doctors are able to conclude that the disease is polio, there are not many ways in which they can help the patient. Doctors can only help the patient alleviate their symptoms by giving them heating pads for muscle cramps, request physical therapy and give them antibiotics for urinary tract infections. Antibiotics cannot be used to kill this infection because Poliomyelitis is caused by the poliovirus, not by a bacteria. Although symptoms of polio may only last up to 72 hours, the after effects of polio are long …show more content…
Polio after effects/ post-polio symptoms can occur up to 35 years after the illness and such effects primarily include paralysis. Prognosis for for depends on the extent of severity of the illness. Patients with little symptoms will show extent prognosis rather than the patients who begin to show symptoms of paralysis. In this disease, the paralysis occurs randomly to the polio survivors body. Post-polio effects can include difficulty swallowing, paralyzed leg, arm etc… Patients who have trouble speaking are given speech therapy so that they can improve their ability to do tasks such as chewing and swallowing (Lincolnshire. 2015). Most of the time complete recovery is possible if the spinal cord and the brain are not involved. If a person is infected with disease and if the brain and spinal cord are involved problems such as shortness of breath and other breathing problems may occur. Other complications for this disease includes lung problems, paralytic ileus, pulmonary edema. For this disease, disabilities are more common though death is also
Patients with polio can be given supportive therapy and fluids to relieve symptoms. The creation of polio vaccines have hugely impacted the population of potential polio threat. Polio vaccines have help reduce the number of polio cases drastically over the years. Research states that polio are 90% effective in the prevention of this disease. Even if doctors are able to conclude that the disease is polio, there are not many ways in which they can help the patient. Doctors can only help the patient alleviate their symptoms by giving them heating pads for muscle cramps, request physical therapy and give them antibiotics for urinary tract infections. Antibiotics cannot be used to kill this infection because Poliomyelitis is caused by the poliovirus, not by a bacteria. Although symptoms of polio may only last up to 72 hours, the after effects of polio are long …show more content…
Polio after effects/ post-polio symptoms can occur up to 35 years after the illness and such effects primarily include paralysis. Prognosis for for depends on the extent of severity of the illness. Patients with little symptoms will show extent prognosis rather than the patients who begin to show symptoms of paralysis. In this disease, the paralysis occurs randomly to the polio survivors body. Post-polio effects can include difficulty swallowing, paralyzed leg, arm etc… Patients who have trouble speaking are given speech therapy so that they can improve their ability to do tasks such as chewing and swallowing (Lincolnshire. 2015). Most of the time complete recovery is possible if the spinal cord and the brain are not involved. If a person is infected with disease and if the brain and spinal cord are involved problems such as shortness of breath and other breathing problems may occur. Other complications for this disease includes lung problems, paralytic ileus, pulmonary edema. For this disease, disabilities are more common though death is also