PPS – Does Everyone Get It?
Question: Does everyone who had polio as a child, and have it seemingly go away, always see symptoms return as PPS later in life? Does PPS occur only in certain polio survivors?
Dr. Bruno’s Response: The degree of initial damage by the polio infection and the degree of RECOVERY OF FUNCTION is the best predictor of PPS. The worse the damage and the better the recovery with the acute polio, “the harder you fall” with PPS.
Our years of research makes me think that all polio survivors who had neuron damage -- muscle weakness evident or not -- will have some symptom that can be related to the original poliovirus-damage to neurons.