If you can't open the bottle cap and pronounce it poorly 'Lou Gehrig's disease' Suspicion Disc/Stroke Misunderstanding
Sep 08, 2024
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Lou Gehrig's disease, a disease in which only motor neurons are selectively destroyed. The official name is 'Atrophic Color Sclerosis', a rare and incurable disease in which gastric motor neurons in the cerebrum and lower motor neurons in the brain stem and spinal cord gradually disappear over time. In the 1930s, a famous American baseball player 'Lou Gehrig's disease was widely known as 'Lou Gehrig's disease', and it was famous for the disease suffered by the famous British physicist Stephen Hawking.
Director Kim Ji-hyun, a neurologist at Suwon Nanuri Hospital's cranial nerve center, said "Lugerick's disease causes muscle contraction, tremors, and pronunciation to appear along with decreased muscle strength, which is sometimes mistaken for a disc or stroke. Accurate diagnosis requires collaboration between musculoskeletal disorders and cranial nervous system diseases, so you should see a medical institution with orthopedic, neurosurgery, and neurologist."
Lou Gehrig's disease is an abnormal degenerative disease of the motor nervous system, and the incidence rate is 1.2 million per 100,000 people in Korea and the prevalence rate is 3.43 per 100,000 people. Currently, many clinical trials are being conducted to develop treatments, but the average survival time is known to be about 50 months.
Mainly, symptoms of weakness in the limbs are felt, and it gradually worsens over time, and symptoms that started in one area gradually spread to the other. Manager Kim Ji-hyun said "Because there is no force in the entire body, movement becomes uncomfortable, pronunciation becomes awkward, and communication becomes difficult." Furthermore, various symptoms appear, such as increased risk of aspiration pneumonia due to weakened swallowing function and frequent swallowing, and difficulty in self-breathing due to weakened respiratory muscles.
Although the cause of Lou Gehrig's disease is not yet known, it is known that various pathological mechanisms work in combination with aging, genetic factors (family history), environmental factors (heavy metals with neurotoxicity, cleaning solvent cleaners, pesticides, traumatic brain injuries, etc.). In fact, about 5-10% of the patients have a family history, and most of them are sporadic with no family history.
If you visit a medical institution because you are suspected of Lou Gehrig's disease, you will first meet a specialist to check the signs of gastric motor neurons and signs of lower motor neurons by listening to a medical history, and determine whether the disease progresses. Electromyography is performed to check for signs of abnormalities in motor neurons below, which do not appear as actual examinations or symptoms. In addition, additional tests such as cerebrospinal fluid tests, brain/spinal MRI tests, blood tests, and cancer tests are conducted to exclude similar diseases.
Currently, there is no specific treatment method to cure Lou Gehrig's disease, and treatment to slow the progression of the disease is being performed through oral drug prescription and injection treatment, and many studies are being conducted at home and abroad.
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