Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)

🔆Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)

✅Context: A few patients infected with Covid-19 have been found suffering from a rare autoimmune disorder called Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS).

✅GBS: Rare neurological disorder in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks part of its peripheral nervous system.

✅Exact cause of GBS not known- not contagious- not inherited- can affect anyone at any age.

✅Symptoms: Unexplained sensations(tingling in feet or hands, or even pain), Weakness on both sides of body(major symptom), Difficulty with eye muscles, Abnormal heart rate or blood pressure; Problems with digestion.

✅Most common type of GBS- Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP).

✅Other types- Acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN) and acute motor-sensory axonal neuropathy (AMSAN).