Successful Case
Seven-year-old boy got strange illness of dancing with hands and feet—Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy
Being lively and resilient before illness
Xiao Xu was born in Jiangmen, and now he is living in his aunt’ home with his mother in Guangzhou. Two years ago, five-year-old Xiao Xu like other children of the same age started to study in school. Xiao Xu was so clever and lively that the children and teachers all liked him.
Got strange illness that he need take medicine everyday
More than a year ago, Xiao Xu occurred the situation suddenly like opening the mouth unnaturally, being awry mouth, not holding anything with his hands, dancing with hands and feet, not protruding the tongue, and falling down when he walked gradually. Until this year, seven-year-old Xiao Xu could not speak smoothly, his illness was much worse than ever before, he wasn’t able to go to school. His family were so worried that they had took him to many hospital but could not find any reasons of his illness, just taking some medicine.
The reason for the illness was diagnosed
In the bottom of January,2o11, his family took Xiao Xu to Three Sections of the Department of Neurology in GuangDong 999 Brain Hospital for treatment, with the thought of having a try. Hu Xiangshu Director looked his all checking results and illness history, and diagnosed him as olivopontocerebellar atrophy. So he was given the medicine to nourish nerves supply, supplied energy and improved the unnatural movement. Several days later, Xiao Xu’s condition turned well, and he was in the recovery of the next stage at the moment. When asked what he wanted to do most, he said happily: “I hope to get well as soon as possible that I can play with other children in school!” So simple thing became the biggest wish of Xiao Xu.
【expert】
According to the introduction of Hu Xiangshu Director, olivopontocerebellar atrophy is a kind of denaturation disease that many parts of a group of unknown nerve system shrink, mainly clinical showing little brain ataxia, some with symptoms of plant nerve, extrapyramidal system and other nerve systems. There are many forms of causing the illness, imaging checkinbg helps the diagnosis. Now it lacks of special treatment, but early diagnosis and having treatment in time, applying the improvement of brain circulation, accelerating brain metabelization with vitamin B and E and ATP help decrease the clinical symptom or delay the disease.