POLIOMYELITIS

The polio virus comes out of the body of the patient with the nose and throat discharge and the faeces. These viruses enter the digestive tract of a healthy person through the mouth from where it penetrates the blood vessels and finally reaches the nervous system and destroy the nerve cells and cause paralysis in children. The initial symptoms of the diasease are similar to those of common cold accompanied by fever, headache, indigestion, vomiting, paralysis of the neck and back and spasm of a muscle. The patient should e immediately isolated and hospitalized. Effected muscles can be restored to normal position by physiotherapy. Children`s can be immunized against this disease with POLIO VACCINE.