Polio is a very terrible disease that poses great harm to children, even affecting their future studies and work. Therefore, when children show symptoms related to polio, parents must pay attention and receive timely formal treatment in order to effectively control the development of the disease. However, what are the symptoms of polio?
There are many symptoms of polio, and in the early stages, the main symptoms are fever, diarrhea, vomiting, and headache. Many parents may mistake it for a cold or digestive system disease, making it easy to misdiagnose. Moreover, the fever will subside three or four days after the fever, but the condition will immediately recur, and the body temperature will be higher than before.
Some children, after falling ill, are unwilling to let others touch them and may experience symptoms such as facial redness and drowsiness. After three to seven days, they will develop paralysis, usually in the lower limbs. If the paralysis no longer continues to develop, it will gradually recover.
In addition, children may also experience symptoms of limb muscle atrophy, difficulty in moving their upper and lower limbs, and even some deformities and joint instability. In severe cases, it can cause hip dislocation, and there may also be sequelae in the feet, such as heel deformities when walking.
