"What will you do when your child gets polio?" - Page 2

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Originally Posted by Tracy

by the way....

did anyone see this about FDR and guillaine barr versus polio.

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/ma...ticlekey=25107

The symptoms of Roosevelt's illness, which first became apparent in 1921, more closely resembled those of Guillain-Barre, also known as acute ascending polyneuritis, a team at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston said.

It is believed to be an autoimmune disease -- one in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue. It occurs after a mild infection, surgery or, rarely, after an immunization.

it goes on.....see link.

The ridiculous thing is that in those days they diagnosed anything with paralysis as polio. There are a whole raft of viruses and conditions that now cause what they then called polio. Which means that the historic graphs are a load of bullswool.

And that's not counting the reworking of the definition in the late fifties which many doctors disagreed with, because it would eliminate 90% of the paralytic polio cases.

[applejuice]

I totally agree.

I often wondered about FDR - polio was the crippler of young adults, and he contracted it at age 39?

I always thought that was strange.

Incidentally, the last known cases of naturally acquired polio were reported in a Christian Science school and in the Amish population in the 1970's.

But I agree that these are based on a subjective diagnosis by a physician.

[Tracy]

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[mom2tig99Nroo03]

Originally Posted by SoHappy

If my child gets polio we will go on the talk show circuit and invite all our non-vax friends to join us... assuming we don't get in a car accident first, or killed crossing the street, which is waaayyyy more likely.

you forgot one- getting struck by a bolt in a thunderstorm.