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28 yr old sick with rare disease after vaccination against influenza AH1N1
03 of Febrero, 2010 - 07:31
She was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, illness that gradually destroys the myelin sheath, which was responsible for ensuring the rapid and efficient transmission of nerve impulses, resulting in numbness and even muscle paralysis.
Send..Monterrey .- A woman aged 28 began to have unusual pains the next day to get vaccinated against human influenza.
As reported in the newspaper El Norte of Monterrey, five days later, she was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, illness that gradually destroys the myelin sheath, which was responsible for ensuring the rapid and efficient transmission of nerve impulses, resulting in muscle numbness and even paralysis.
According to the medical report of the girl she started with this syndrome after application of the vaccine, first started with severe headache, tingling and numbness in the feet, as well as pain in the calves, heaviness in arms and numbness in the lips.
The newspaper said the young man and was discharged but will take a treatment for three months. This is the first known case in Mexico of Guillain-Barre specifically caused by the vaccine against influenza A H1N1, Because so far there are no reports of the Ministry of Health to mention the syndrome.