WORLD HEALTH -- A mysterious disease causes paralysis on kids and it is something that the world should be bothered about. Acute Flaccid Myelitis also referred to as the AFM remains to be a mystery to scientists and medical professionals. They find it a bit challenging to explain such disease and why it is affecting mostly children of a young age.
A child suffering from the AFM could lose all his muscle mass in a span of months. In addition, it could also be the very reason why they would require hour after hours of physical therapy. However, before parents realize that the health concern was something they should take seriously, the disease has taken over their life by surprise.
Most patients said that it all started with a little bit of pain in the muscles. Rachel Scott is the mother of Braden, who hails from Texas and is currently suffering from the disease. She calls that it started with her son who refused to go to swimming lessons one hot suffer afternoon. He was complaining of weakness and that day, Rachel saw how tired he looked. That same night, Braden was taken to the nearest health care facility then to a hospital soon after. Within days, Braden couldn't move the rest of his body except on his hands.
Late one night, Braden's father and the staff nurse saw him lifeless in his hospital bed. That was how bad the disease was in affecting young children like Braden. Although he was revived by the doctors and other medical staff, that part right there was the scariest moments for his parents. It was like one day he was doing fine and the next thing they know he was not.
Braden underwent several tests before his doctors diagnosed him with AFM. In 2016, he was completely paralyzed and has lost all control of his body muscles. He lost weight and struggled with everyday survival. He got this rare and mysterious disease that changed everything about his life. Their family didn't wait until it was too late before they sought help.
Braden is just one of the many kids living with such a disease. Doctors are still trying to understand how it is affecting kids so that they could come up with a great solution for it. Acute Flaccid Myelitis remains to be a disease that affected money. It targets the muscles and causes paralysis on whoever is affected by it. The sad truth about such disease is that it targets the healthiest of children and doctors couldn't find a suitable explanation for it.
The desire to be healthy is in all of us. Parents of young children could only wish to protect their kids from diseases that could make them feel pain inside out. They want to put a stop to it and they could only wish to bring back the life that was waiting for Braden before all these.
