What Is Post Polio Syndrome?
2. Post-Polio Syndrome
Polio is not serious for all people who catch it, and some will not even have been aware they had the disease at all. Others will have had symptoms like paralyses and muscles weakness, only for the symptoms to disappear after the patient recovers from the disease. The symptoms will return for some people, however.
Post-polio syndrome is a condition where the symptoms return decades after the disease had apparently passed. The condition can cause any symptoms that did remain to get worse. It is a poorly understood condition and is also rare, especially considering polio itself is also rare in developed nations.
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