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Poliomyelitis
Also Known As: Polio
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Condition overview
Attributes
Commonality for Afghanistanis uncommon
Commonality for Australiais rare
Commonality for Carribeanis uncommon
Commonality for Central Africais rare
Commonality for Central Americais uncommon
Commonality for Chinais uncommon
Commonality for East Africais rare
Commonality for Europeis rare
Commonality for North Africais uncommon
Commonality for North Americais rare
Commonality for Pakistanis uncommon
Commonality for Russiais rare
Commonality for South Africais rare
Commonality for South Americais uncommon
Commonality for South East Asiais uncommon
Commonality for Southern Indiais uncommon
Commonality for Sub Saharan Africais uncommon
Commonality for Zimbabweis rare
Incidenceis approximately 1 in 2,000,000 people
Incidence for Africais approximately 1 in 1,021,505 people
Incidence for South East Asiais approximately 1 in 1,875,578 people
Linked signs and symptoms
22Each sign/symptom opens its own page and links back to related conditions.
- Breathing Painful or Difficult
- Constipation
- Diarrhoea (Diarrhea)
- Drooling (Dribbling)
- Fatigue
- Fever (Raised Body Temperature)
- Headache (Cephalgia)
- Mind: Irritability
- Mind: Malaise
- Muscle Tension
- Muscle Tightening
- Muscle Weakness
- Neck Stiff
- Pain Back
- Pain Muscle (Myalgia)
- Pain Neck
- Paralysis General
- Skin Lesions
- Skin Rash
- Swallowing Difficulty (Dysphagia)
- Throat Sore (Pharyngitis)
- Vomiting
Linked drugs / medications
0No linked drugs are listed yet.
Treatments, therapies and supportive options
2Grouped by treatment type. These are educational database links, not personal treatment recommendations. Evidence labels are shown only where stored in the EH database.
Alternative therapies
1Linked diagnostic tests and investigations
4These are pulled from both EH diagnostic-test link tables, including the older large test-link table.
Biological and test markers
6This visual map uses existing EH database links to show biological agents and lab markers reported as increased, decreased, or associated with this condition. These are educational relationships only; test results must be interpreted by a qualified clinician because ranges vary by lab, method, age, sex and clinical context.
Often increased
5- Alpha-1 Antintrypsin (AAT)Reference range exampleAdult ( > 16y): 90–215 mg/dLLinked diagnostic tests1Alpha-1 Antitrypsin (AAT) Concentration
- Alpha-1-Globulin (Blood, Serum)Reference range exampleAll: 0.1–0.3 gm/dLLinked diagnostic tests1Protein Electrophoresis (Blood, Serum Protein)
- Alpha-2-Globulin (Blood, Serum)Reference range exampleAll: 0.6–1 gm/dLLinked diagnostic tests1Protein Electrophoresis (Blood, Serum Protein)
- Beta GlobulinReference range exampleAll: 0.7–1.2 gm/dLLinked diagnostic tests1Protein Electrophoresis (Blood, Serum Protein)
- White Blood Cell (WBC)Reference range exampleAdult ( > 16y): 4.5–10.5 million/mL; Adult ( > 16y): 3.2–10 million/mLLinked diagnostic tests1White Blood Cell (WBC) Count
Often decreased
1Other associated markers
0No markers in this group.
Introduction / full article
Poliomyelitis
Efficacy of Alternative and Other Treatments According to GRADE* Ranking:
Magnetic Therapy:
Recommendation: no recommendation (A study has been done which supports claims that magnetic therapy can reduce pain in patients that have recovered from polio. However, the reliability of this study has been questioned)
Grade of Evidence: low quality of evidence
* www.gradeworkinggroup.org