POLIO IN CHILDREN: SYMPTOMS, HOME CARE, PRECAUTIONS
Posted by adminSymptoms: general bodily discomfort; fever; sore throat; nausea; sore, stiff muscles; stiff neck or spine.
Home care
The best home care is prevention; be sure your child is adequately protected against polio by immunization.
Precautions
- The child needs the full series of immunizations to receive long-lasting immunity.
- If the child originally received the Salk polio vaccine, he or she must have boosters or receive two full series of the Sabin vaccine in order to be fully protected.
- Polio is caused by one of three different viruses, and attack by any one of the three confers immunity against that virus only. It is, therefore, technically possible to have three separate attacks of polio.
Polio – poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis – is an infection of the spinal cord. It is due to one of three related but different viruses. Attack by one of these three viruses confers lifelong immunity against that type only. Therefore, it is possible to have three separate attacks of the disease.
The polio virus is found in the saliva and the stool of the infected person. It is transmitted by direct contact or through contact with something that has been contaminated by the virus carried in an infected stool – for example, foods, toys, or the water in a swimming pool. The incubation period – the time it takes for the symptoms to appear once the person is exposed to the virus – for polio is three to 14 days.
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