KAIKKI OIREET MIKROBIEN AIHEUTTAMIA?

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Lähettäjä: Soijuv Lähetetty: 30.8.2004 16:28

Kaikki oireet näyttävät liittyvän mikrobeihin? Artikkelin mukaan steptokokit (esim. tavallinen angiinan aiheuttaja) aiheuttaa neuropsykiatrisia oireita ja mykoplasma esim. levottomat jalat -oireiston.


Restless legs syndrome; Association with streptococcal or mycoplasma infection.

Matsuo M, Tsuchiya K, Hamasaki Y, Singer HS.

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan.

Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal infections have been reported to cause neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as chorea, tics, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, presumably through autoimmune damage to basal ganglia. Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections have also been reported to cause damage to the basal ganglia. Restless legs syndrome is a movement disorder with focal restlessness, an irresistible desire to move, and exacerbation by long periods of sitting or lying. We present three children with transient restless legs syndrome-like symptoms possibly associated with group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal infection or Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. One of three patients had persistently elevated enzyme-linked immunosorbent optical density values against human caudate and putamen