Today's Medical Mysterie

[George K]

Answers in the thread. Never seen this.

I read about it in school, but holy crap.

Opisthotonus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisthotonus

[taiwan_girl]

I was too scared to watch the video. The description in the Wiki link was enough. :eek

[Renauda]

Can tetanus or strychnine poisoning not manifest similarly?

Edit: I have now read the complete WiKi link and did some more digging. Yes both can. Carry on.

Not good.

[Mik]

Demonic possession?

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in Today's Medical Mysterie:

Opisthotonus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisthotonus

Opisthotonus is more pronounced in infants. Opisthotonus in the neonate may be a symptom of meningitis, tetanus, severe kernicterus, or the rare maple syrup urine disease.

I had never heard of this until it came out on my ‘carrier report’ from 23andMe.

[George K]

I'm surprised that they let this progress to this extent.

If this were my patients I'd paralyze them, ventilate and sedate - let the ID guys figure out how to deal with the toxins.