What is Guillain-Barre aftermath

Green - Barre syndrome (Guillain-Barre Snydrome, GBS) is a group of nervous system autoimmune disease. According to the onset and course of the form, GBS type can be divided into acute, chronic and relapse of a chronic type. Acute Guillain-Barre syndrome, also known as acute infection of multiple nerve root neuritis or acute infection of the nerve root of multiple demyelinating neuropathy (AIDP). About half of these patients prior to the onset of a few days to several weeks of often infection, such as sore throat, stuffy nose, fever and upper respiratory tract infection, such as diarrhea, vomiting and other gastrointestinal symptoms, and may also have herpes zoster, influenza, chicken pox , Mumps, and hepatitis, and other. More acute onset, the symptoms gradually increased in 1-2 weeks, reached a peak. More than 80 percent of patients in the first two-leg weakness, followed by paralysis gradually add up. In severe cases, paralysis of limbs appear, respiratory paralysis and life-threatening. In the majority of two to four weeks recovery, the extent and speed of the larger difference between patients. About 1 / 3 of patients may have left with after-effects. If both lower extremities and / or double upper-limb weakness or muscle atrophy, muscle pain, foot drop. A subjective feeling of limb abnormalities, such as numbness, the ants take flu, flu and the burning sensation of acupuncture, examination showed the limbs remote "gloves - socks"-type feeling diminish or missing. Some patients are left over from facial paralysis, or swallowing difficulties, dysarthria, choking and can not expectoration. Some patients autonomic dysfunction less visible hand-foot-Khan or hyperhidrosis, acromegaly dry skin, or urine retention or incontinence.
     Chronic Guillain-Barre syndrome, also known as chronic infection of the nerve root of multiple demyelinating neuropathy (CIDP). AIDP with similar and different. CIDP course of slow-recurrence of symptoms of myasthenia gravis and to feel the main obstacle. Symptoms of myasthenia gravis is often symmetrical, mainly shoulder, upper arm and thigh weakness, can also be combined forearm, leg, hand and foot weakness, limb weakness often more common than trunk weakness. Lower limb weakness Changbiaoxianwei walk stumble, easy Caikong, can not be sustained standing, from top to bottom-up stairs easily and difficult. Upper unable to unlock the performance of key applications, Wobi, of the buttons, Shutou difficulties. Most have muscle atrophy. A significant proportion of patients with clinical manifestations of radical development of the condition worsened, since the limbs, muscle atrophy unable to carry out remote aptitude proximal development, involving the chest or even the back, neck muscles, causing muscle atrophy body; What is more, quickly lead to respiratory muscle atrophy , Clinical performance for breathing difficulties, patients of respiratory failure, heart failure and life-threatening.