How to treat polio

Polio is an acute infectious disease caused by the polio virus that can seriously endanger physical health. Polio patients must always take various active measures in the acute phase, recovery phase, and sequelae phase to protect nerve cells from damage, reduce muscle atrophy, and prevent the occurrence and development of deformities. So how to treat polio? The treatment options available to polio patients are as follows.

1. Physical therapy: such as ultrashort wave, drug ion introduction, sunbathing, infrared, hot compress, electrical stimulation therapy, massage, acupuncture, acupoint injection, catgut implantation, hyperbaric oxygen, etc.

2. Drug treatment: such as galantamine, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, methoxazole, ATP and blood dilator injection drugs. Traditional Chinese medicine includes Sancai Decoction, Buyang Huanwu Decoction, etc.

3. Medical sports training: According to the location and degree of paralysis of the patient, special medical gymnastics, passive exercise (for patients with muscle strength level 0-1), assisted exercise (for patients with muscle strength level 2-3), active exercise (for patients with muscle strength above level 3) are performed. Resistance exercise can also be used.

4. Surgical treatment: Indications: patients should be over 5 years old and be able to cooperate with doctors in examination and functional training; the course of the disease should generally be more than 2 years after the onset of the disease, but some patients (soft tissue surgery) can be treated earlier. Contraindications: patients with balanced muscle paralysis without deformity; patients with mild muscle paralysis, muscle strength above level 4 or mild limb deformity that does not affect function or shortening within 2 cm; patients with extensive muscle paralysis accompanied by multiple severe deformities, flail legs. Surgical methods include muscle transfer, tendon lengthening or release, joint fusion, pelvic osteotomy, diaphysis lengthening, epiphysis lengthening, spinal correction, etc.

I believe you have understood the above treatment methods for polio. If you suffer from polio, you should go to the hospital in time to receive the best treatment plan. Do not blindly seek medical treatment to avoid delaying the disease. I wish you a speedy recovery.