Causes

Causes of Paralysis

Causes of Paralysis symptoms that are very common

The following causes of Paralysis symptoms are diseases or medical conditions that affect more than 10 million people in the USA:

  • Alcoholism
  • Arthritis
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Migraine - Eye paralysis
  • Trauma

Causes of Paralysis symptoms that are common

The following causes of Paralysis symptoms are diseases or conditions that affect more than 1 million people in the USA:

  • Campylobacter food poisoning - Guillain-Barre syndrome
  • Graves Disease - paralysis of eye muscles
  • Sjogren's syndrome
  • Stroke - right hemiplegia
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus

Causes of Paralysis symptoms that are uncommon

The following causes of Paralysis symptoms are diseases or conditions that affect more than 200,000 people, but less than 1 million people in the USA:

  • Cerebral Palsy - spastic limb paralysis
  • HIV
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Neural tube defect - Leg paralysis
  • Shingles - partial facial paralysis

Causes of Paralysis symptoms that are rare

The offical US government definition of a "rare" disease is one that affects 200,000 people or less. The following causes of Paralysis symptoms appear in the population at a rate of less than 200,000 people per year in the USA:

  • Aicardi syndrome - abducent nerve paralysis
  • Alpers Syndrome - quadriparesis
  • Alternating Hemiplegia - temporary episodes of one-sided paralysis
  • Brown-Sequard Syndrome - hemiparaplegia
  • Encephaloceles - spastic quadriplegia (paralysis of all 4 limbs)
  • Fabry's Disease - hemiparesis
  • Fahr's Syndrome - spastic paralysis
  • Hydranencephaly - spastic quadriparesis
  • Incontinentia Pigmenti - slight paralysis
  • Kearns-Sayre Syndrome - progressive external ophthalmoplegia
  • Klippel Feil Syndrome - paraplegia
  • Microcephaly - spastic quadriplegia
  • Miller Fisher Syndrome - ophthalmoplegia
  • Mobius syndrome - facial paralysis
  • Moyamoya Disease - hemiparesis
  • Narcolepsy - sleep paralysis
  • Ramsay Hunt syndrome Type II - permanent facial paralysis
  • Rasmussen's Encephalitis - hemiparesis

Source: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/symptoms/paralysis_symptoms/common.htm