Learn About Poliomyelitis or Polio with Me!
Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease, which is caused by poliovirus. Factors of this virus usually pertains to by people being affected from contaminated feces, blood, salvia, or food that contains some feces. No animals will be affected with polio. Symptoms of polio are fevers, head aches, diarrhea, vomiting, and neck stiffness.
At its worst, polio can cause arm and leg pain, which may lead to deformed arms or legs (severely bent body parts) from spinal polio. If the nerve cells are destroyed, polio can lead to permanent paralysis. More dangerously, some cases of polio may lead to permanent polio paralysis where suffer to have difficulty breathing, which may be fatal, if he/she does not use a breathing machine.
People can avoid suffering from polio if they take their polio vaccine shot. However, once some people develop polio there is no treatment to recover from the virus. Continents with the highest rates of polio is Asia and Africa.
A lot of people can recover from polio while others may live with this sickness for the rest of their lives. Please keep in mind that those who do recover from polio may develop the illness again in the near future, which is post polio syndrome. Unfortunately, there is a mortality rate of 2-5 percent for children and 15-30 percent for adults.
While there is no cure at this time, treatment tools to help those cope with their polio is physical therapy, occupational therapy, corrective shoes, braces, orthopedic surgery, ventilators, such as iron lungs to assist with independent breathing. Through research and experimentation, the mission is to hopefully find a remedy to treat polio by the year 2018.
At its worst, polio can cause arm and leg pain, which may lead to deformed arms or legs (severely bent body parts) from spinal polio. If the nerve cells are destroyed, polio can lead to permanent paralysis. More dangerously, some cases of polio may lead to permanent polio paralysis where suffer to have difficulty breathing, which may be fatal, if he/she does not use a breathing machine.
People can avoid suffering from polio if they take their polio vaccine shot. However, once some people develop polio there is no treatment to recover from the virus. Continents with the highest rates of polio is Asia and Africa.
A lot of people can recover from polio while others may live with this sickness for the rest of their lives. Please keep in mind that those who do recover from polio may develop the illness again in the near future, which is post polio syndrome. Unfortunately, there is a mortality rate of 2-5 percent for children and 15-30 percent for adults.
While there is no cure at this time, treatment tools to help those cope with their polio is physical therapy, occupational therapy, corrective shoes, braces, orthopedic surgery, ventilators, such as iron lungs to assist with independent breathing. Through research and experimentation, the mission is to hopefully find a remedy to treat polio by the year 2018.
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