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