What are the methods of physical examination for poliomyelitis?

Poliomyelitis, also known as poliomyelitis, is an acute infectious disease that endangers children's health. This virus mainly invades the motor cells of the central nervous system and damages motor neurons. So, what are the methods of physical examination for polio? The following is a detailed introduction for everyone, hoping to be helpful to everyone.

Poliomyelitis screening

1. Routine blood test

Check whether the total white blood cell count and neutrophil percentage of the child are normal.

2. Cerebrospinal fluid examination

In most cases, children in the pre-paralysis and early stages of paralysis show an increase in cell count (mainly lymphocytes), with no obvious increase in protein, and a phenomenon of cell protein separation. This has a certain reference value for whether the child suffers from paralysis.

3. Virus Isolation

Virus isolation is the most important test for confirming polio. The virus can be isolated from the throat and feces of children within one week of onset of the disease. Samples can be collected by throat swab and anal swab, and then tested to obtain the test results.

4. Serological examination

If the child has not taken the polio vaccine recently, using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method to detect anti-polio virus-specific immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies in the patient's blood and cerebrospinal fluid within 1 month of onset can help with early diagnosis; the specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody titer in the serum of patients in the recovery period is more than 4 times higher than that in the acute period, which will also be helpful.

Through the above detailed introduction to the methods of physical examination for polio, do you understand what the examination for polio includes? In most cases, when a child gets polio, it is caused by infection. Therefore, during the child's growth process, it is recommended that parents must let their children live in a healthy family and let their children develop good living habits.