Guillain Barre Syndrome

B.Aussie

B.Aussie

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Guillain Barre Syndrome. Has anyone had it? Does anyone know someone with it?

How were they treated? How was it tested? How long we're they in hospital? How long did it take them to recover to 100%? Were they paralysed?
 
Wrong, guilian and barre were the scientists that first described it and not a person that died. Gtfo
 
here's my notes from class:

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Guillain Barre: acute idiopathic inflammatory

demyelinating polyneuropathy



sensory disturbance (tingling)

progressive muscle weakness and

areflexia (rubbery legs)

associated with spontaneous

remission

annual incidence of 0.6 -2.4

cases per 100,000 population

occurs at all ages and both

sexes

most common cause of acute

flaccid paralysis in healthy people

a heterogeneous syndrome with

several variant forms

Associated conditions

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Antecedent respiratory tract or

gastrointestinal infection

EBV, CMV, HSV, Lyme, H. flu,

campylobacter jejuni



Post vaccine

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Swine influenza vaccine 1976

13

days post Rx



Clinical features

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Sx develop 1-3 weeks post infection

Fine paresthesias of toes and

fingertips

Symmetrical lower extremity weakness

(progressive)

Weakness ascends to arms, cranial

nerves (7)

Facial

diparesis

Respiratory muscles may be involved

Sciatic pain may be present

30% require mechanical ventilation

mild

form: upper ext weakness,

areflexive, gait difficulty

mod form: unable to walk alone

severe form: ascending paralysis, may require vent



Physical exam

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Symmetrical weakness with diminished

or absent reflexes

Orthostatic hypotension

Paralytic ileus

Bladder dysfunction

Abnormal sweating



Diagnosis

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NCS are slowed

Partial motor conduction block

Helps to prognosticate

CSF shows increased protein and normal

wbc = albuminocytologic dissociation

Antibodies may be present dependent on

variant



Management

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20/30/40 rule

Vital capacity of
 
My girlfriend was diagnosed with Guillain Barre Syndrome when she was 3 in the 90's. It took forever for the doctors to figure out that it was Guillain Barre because she was so young. She was in the ICU for three months and the doctors told her parents that she would either die or would never fully recover. It spread all the way to her lungs and almost her heart. She made a full recovery despite what the doctors told her parents. She had to learn how to walk again and go to a lot of physical therapy. She lived a normal childhood, is athletic, was a cheerleader in high school and now goes skiing all the time. You would never know she had to go through that when she was 3.
 
Apparently Climax posted on newschooler's NSG and expected seriousness. (on top of that asking something an MD should be answering)
 
Wrong, I didn't ask what it was or the survivor rate etc. were, ehst doctors typically answer, i asked for personal stories, something my specialists could not tell me.
 
"most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis in healthy people"

So you're worried about your dick never working again?
 
okay shit-for-brains. well some high-paid doctors at johns hopkins told me i would never walk again and i regained full fuction in less than 2 years so go fuck yourself
 
i was in a car crash. im just saying that doctors dont know everything and that people shouldnt give up because they get a bad diagnosis
 
Your name loses you all credibility. Because they said you may never walk again and you did that = don't listen to any Bad diagnosis any doctors in any field of medicine give you? I'm on kepra Because I had a seizure from the blunt trauma impact. The kepra stops seizures, am I likly to have another seizure again no but I Have to take it for the next six months just in case. That's how doctors work they have to tell you the Worst case scenario sometimes.
 
who gets angry about recovering? who ever said doctors know everything? anything a trained doctor say is a hell of a lot more trustworthy than any shit you'd spew
 
No, you made a trifling post that really had no point/purpose. You are using anecdotal evidence to essentially discredit the entire medical field. Your "point" is unsubstantiated and completely irrelevant to what the OP asked for. Essentially all you have done is trolled the forums, good job.
 
Because he said it out of context? There was no talk about a diagnosis... All the OP wanted to know was information about the disease, and when the kid says doctors sometimes have no idea what they are talking about it completely undermines any sort of medical advice given in this thread.
 
Viewer is right doctors can be shit heads. A walk in clinic doctor prescribe me Accutane when I had previously had UC and there is a known correlation between them that I didn't know about but he should have.

It cost me a year of my life. In the states there are law suits against Accutane for this here people have been paid up to $27M in compensation. I should sue the doctor for malpractice too.

I also have gone to clinics where the doc have me prescriptions and then when I ask my regular / proven reliable doctor he says dont take them.

If they both say opposite things then that's a simple proof that that can't always be right

anyway, good luck OP, I've never heard of that's disease
 
fucking noob

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