ETIOLOGY OF POLIOMYELITIS, EPIDEMIOLOGY, CLINICAL PICTURE, TREATMENT, PREVENTION

Abstract

What is Poliomyelitis? The causes, diagnostics and treatment methods will be discussed in the article. Poliomyelitis is a viral infection that primarily affects the central nervous system (gray matter of the spinal cord) and leads to the development of flaccid paresis and paralysis. Depending on the clinical form, the course of poliomyelitis can be either low-symptom (with short-term fever, catarrhal phenomena, dyspepsia) or with pronounced meningeal symptoms, vegetative disorders, the development of peripheral paralysis, limb deformation, etc. Polio diagnostics is based on the isolation of the virus in biological fluids, the results of RSK and ELISA diagnostics. Polio treatment includes symptomatic therapy, vitamin therapy, physiotherapy, exercise therapy and massage.