What will happen to Guillain-Barré syndrome

Because Guillain-Barré syndrome is an immune damage to the nervous system, some patients will have some sequelae after recovery. For example, muscle atrophy, patients have strange sensations, facial paralysis, etc. If this type of sequelae occurs, you should seek medical attention promptly to see if it can be relieved and treated.

About 1/3 of patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome may have sequelae. Such as weakness or muscle atrophy, muscle soreness, and foot drop in both lower limbs and/or upper limbs. The affected limbs have subjective sensory abnormalities, such as numbness, crawling sensations, tingling, and burning sensations. Examination can reveal "glove-sock" type sensory impairment or loss in the distal extremities.

1. Some patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome may have residual facial paralysis, or dysphagia, dysarthria, choking cough, and inability to expectorate. Some patients with autonomic dysfunction may have hypohidrosis or hyperhidrosis in the hands and feet, dry skin on the extremities, or urinary retention or incontinence.

2. There may be residual limb weakness, muscle atrophy, foot drop, limb numbness, sensory impairment, facial paralysis, dysphagia, slurred speech, etc. Some patients recover within a few months to a year, while a few need longer.

Traditional Chinese medicine has good effect in treating Guillain-Barré syndrome by treating both the symptoms and the root cause.

Traditional Chinese medicine has always attached great importance to the principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment in treating diseases, but it also includes the content of disease differentiation and treatment. Disease differentiation is to analyze and diagnose the disease based on the specific causes, pathologies and symptoms of the diseased part. Therefore, disease differentiation and treatment is to treat the specific causes, pathologies and symptoms of the diseased part to achieve the goal of curing the disease.

The principles are to nourish the liver and kidneys, benefit the spleen, extinguish liver wind, and resolve phlegm and blood stasis, and the treatment principle is to take both the symptoms and the root cause into consideration. The treatment of excess syndrome should focus on treating the symptoms by methods such as clearing away heat and dampness, dispelling cold and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, resolving phlegm and unblocking meridians. The treatment of deficiency syndrome should focus on methods such as nourishing lung yin, tonifying liver and kidney, strengthening spleen and stomach, warming kidney and assisting yang. Through oral administration, rectal medication, and reasonable physical training, the internal organs are regulated, and the vital energy is restored, the disease can slowly reach a state of recovery.