What is it about?

The illness begin slowly by diffuse pain, weakness, fatigue leading to misdiagnosis as malaria or simple work fatigue, after some months to three years, the main signs or symptoms appear bigin by difficulty in speech which become loudless, swallow disturbance, gate imbalance, weakness, and progessively all the motor system which help you to talk, swallow, write and walk will stop down. The sensory system is still keep normal mean that you continue to feel sensibility. The cognitive system is still normal for a time. The complications will appear like skin, respiratory and urinary infections and eatless. There is no significant treatment than only Riluzole who slowing the disease progression.

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Why is it important?

When feeling these signs and symptoms, make quickly control with your physician, make all check up, take care of all illness risk factors, good eating with fruits and water, physical activities, well sleeping, avoid heavy minerals and radiations, There is no any preventing system

Perspectives

The genetic study is important in a family with amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. The genetic therapy will help to prevent and manage the disease in the coming years.

Dr komi assogba
University Hospital

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This page is a summary of: Epidemiology and Clinical Description of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Low Income Setting: A Syndrome with Short Survival, American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, January 2015, Science Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.11648/j.ajpn.s.2015030501.12.
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