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Florence Nurses. Here is an article related to GBS.Read more and enlightens yourself ………

Guillain Barre Syndrome is an autoimmune peripheral neuropathy or we call it as acute inflammatory polyneuropathy, in which we can see an ascending paralysis from the lower limps to face and there was obvious loss of deep tendon reflexes.

When there is any infection, the immune system directs the attacks to foreign antigens (but here it was gangliosides in the nervous tissue (nodes of ranvier)), and that results in inflammation of the myelin and conduction block. Loss of deep tendon reflexes, muscle paralysis of the legs, face, diaphragm, etc happens in this case. There may be loss of proprioception (position sense), rubbery legs etc as result of GBS.Electromyogram will show the demyelination changes and there should be no fever, csf showing increased protein count without any pleocytosis (increased cell count), al these help you to pinpoint it as a GBS.

RX – high dose immunoglobins or plasmapheresis will do the job.

Nursing care-

-         take care of the ADL of the patient

-         check the vitals and monitor

NURSES, just like us there has been other life savers like NSG commandos, all defence personal, who sacrificed their precious lives for rescuing innocent lives in various terror sites of Mumbai.

Finally it was end for all the terror havoc. SIGH …………

For a minute let us pray for all the innocent souls and the unsung heroes who fought to save the lives.