plumeria
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Help please! My brother in law has this disease since he was 11 years old. Does it sound like ALS? He started to develop the symptoms in 1990. At the beginning, the disease developed very slowly. Recent years it severs so quickly.
He is 31-year-old (born in April 1980, term delivered and APGAR score was 10). He was admitted in hospital five days after born because of neonatal pneumonia, neonatal omphalitis, and infectious jaundice. Escherichia coli, white staphylococcus, and staphylococcus aureus were found after umbilical secretion cultivation. Coagulase was positive. Escherichia coli and gas-gangrene clostridia were found after oropharyngeal secretion cultivation. The body temperature was fluctuated from 38 to 40.3 degrees for 20 days. He did not have any muscular spasms.
He was often awaken with a startle during his infantile age and could not walk until 20-month old. He had duck-like gait with arms swung significantly. Running was difficult to him. He could not speak fluently even at 9-year old and was poor in expression. He went elementary school at 7 years old and the grades were poor. In October 1990, he began to feel intertia on the legs, and easy to fall. Slight inversion malformation of two feet began to appear with the lateral landing on the ground while walking.
Physical exam: cranial nerve (-), the two feet was inversion like talipes equines, both knee jerk reflexes were excessive and both babinski sign were also excessive, both knees and both ankles clonus were positive. Vertebral column was normal in the shape. No sensation abnormalities. But the muscular tension of lower extremities was a bit strong. He had scissors gait while walking.
He was well developed without contagious diseases or trauma history. Inoculation was preceeded on time. He would catch a cold once or twice every year before 12 year-old. The temperature was 37.5 degrees - 39 degrees and would come down after taking some NSAIDS or some antibiotics. No similar history in family. The father worked in institution and the mother was an anesthetist. They were not close relative. His mother had caught a cold when she was 6 months pregnant. The parents and his brother were healthy.
His parents had consulted many doctors and central nerves infectious paralysis was diagnosed.
Symptoms a few years ago: muscular atrophy of the low limbs was getting more severe. The thenar eminence muscles began to atrophy. There was intermittent upper abdominal spasm pain lasting 2-3 seconds. It could relieve automatically. He was not able to control his stool and urine.
Symptoms now are a lot worse now. He couldn't walk and sit. Couldn't feed himself, Could not even hold the tooth brush.
He is 31-year-old (born in April 1980, term delivered and APGAR score was 10). He was admitted in hospital five days after born because of neonatal pneumonia, neonatal omphalitis, and infectious jaundice. Escherichia coli, white staphylococcus, and staphylococcus aureus were found after umbilical secretion cultivation. Coagulase was positive. Escherichia coli and gas-gangrene clostridia were found after oropharyngeal secretion cultivation. The body temperature was fluctuated from 38 to 40.3 degrees for 20 days. He did not have any muscular spasms.
He was often awaken with a startle during his infantile age and could not walk until 20-month old. He had duck-like gait with arms swung significantly. Running was difficult to him. He could not speak fluently even at 9-year old and was poor in expression. He went elementary school at 7 years old and the grades were poor. In October 1990, he began to feel intertia on the legs, and easy to fall. Slight inversion malformation of two feet began to appear with the lateral landing on the ground while walking.
Physical exam: cranial nerve (-), the two feet was inversion like talipes equines, both knee jerk reflexes were excessive and both babinski sign were also excessive, both knees and both ankles clonus were positive. Vertebral column was normal in the shape. No sensation abnormalities. But the muscular tension of lower extremities was a bit strong. He had scissors gait while walking.
He was well developed without contagious diseases or trauma history. Inoculation was preceeded on time. He would catch a cold once or twice every year before 12 year-old. The temperature was 37.5 degrees - 39 degrees and would come down after taking some NSAIDS or some antibiotics. No similar history in family. The father worked in institution and the mother was an anesthetist. They were not close relative. His mother had caught a cold when she was 6 months pregnant. The parents and his brother were healthy.
His parents had consulted many doctors and central nerves infectious paralysis was diagnosed.
Symptoms a few years ago: muscular atrophy of the low limbs was getting more severe. The thenar eminence muscles began to atrophy. There was intermittent upper abdominal spasm pain lasting 2-3 seconds. It could relieve automatically. He was not able to control his stool and urine.
Symptoms now are a lot worse now. He couldn't walk and sit. Couldn't feed himself, Could not even hold the tooth brush.