The Guillain-Barre '(GBS) and' one of these so-called rare diseases: affects the few people in the world, about 150 million, and is' almost 'incurable, because its process can not' be arrested, but mitigated and modified only marginally.
Also known as poliradicolonevrite (inflammation of the peripheral nervous system), the GBS is announced in a subtle and can 'endanger anyone's life, regardless of age', sex, race (if one can speak of race in humans), physical condition, type of feeding, previous or current diseases, etc.. It has a rapid onset, which may 'progress to total paralysis (quadriplegia) and cardio-respiratory failure within a few days. They are often associated with diffuse pains, especially in joints and extremities' (paresthesia and dysesthesia in hands and feet).
GBS strikes without a real cause (as they are often preceded by infections or vaccinations are considered as factors that "trigger", you think of a 'mediation' virus, but this 'difficult to diagnose) and it can' evolve in a deterioration that affects the autonomic innervation necessitating the use of resuscitation. In fact, the autonomic nerves control involuntary functions such as breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure, digestive and sexual functions, and always working independently in fact, even when we sleep.
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As polyneuropathy, GBS refers to a bilateral and symmetrical involvement of peripheral nerves (interest, ie, in a similar way, both sides of the body), and disorders generally begin in the hands and feet. Depending on the motor nerves are affected, sensory, or both, it comes to motor neuropathy, sensory, or mixed.
As peripheral neuropathy, to be affected are motor nerves, responsible for voluntary movement, and the sensory (allow us to sense pain, vibration, touch, to recognize the shapes of objects, Knowing the location of parts of our body in space).
GBS and 'immune-mediated neuropathy. The immune system, whose main task is' to protect the body against infectious agents outside, in this case, and for unknown reasons, attacks parts of the body causing the onset of autoimmune diseases. Here to be "attacked" are the peripheral nerves (sometimes limited to the component of myelin, but in many cases there 'involvement is also part of the axon, the nerve itself).
The disease is self-limiting with spontaneous recovery from the acute phase in two months, and remission almost 'full of symptoms in about a year. Sometimes the results remain, and is' therefore crucial early therapeutic intervention, making use of intravenous immunoglobulin, plasmapheresis (washing of the blood), particularly the rehabilitation (fisiokinesi).
The healthy individual affected by the syndrome is facing traumatic experience also (and especially) on a psychic level: often do not understand what is happening in his body, and therefore does not accept the severe limitations and the long process that awaits him. It 'important to be paired with a few conventional therapies for psychiatric and psychological support to limit the series forms of depression, phobias and pathologies induced by the development of anxiety and prostranti very likely to somatization. E 'in the conviction of the writer, suffering from GBS 18 months ago, it's very important that the patient can deal directly with ex-patients in order to establish with them, along with interviews with the specialist psychologist, a dialogue to exchange experiences and receive comfort and help.
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