A neurologic examination is not invasive and there are no risks or dangers associated with these tests.
Any child that develops a round, bull'seye skin rash, joint pain, flu-like symptoms, and/or neurologic symptoms as described above should see a doctor.
Children who had seizures due to the vaccine normally made a full recovery with no neurologic problems afterward.
Even within families, in which the specific genetic defect should be the same, some children have mostly neurologic problems while others have recurrent infections, and still others have neither neurologic problems nor recurrent infections.
Functional MRI is being researched to image neurologic disorders, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), delayed cognitive development, and epilepsy.
However, several carefully constructed research studies disproved the idea that the pertussis vaccine is the cause of neurologic damage.
In general, the neurologic, behavioral, and emotional disorders become the most problematic for individuals.
In newborns, the most common cause of cardiopulmonary arrest is respiratory failure caused by sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), airway obstruction (usually from inhalation of a foreign body), sepsis, neurologic disease, or drowning.
In people with severe neurologic symptoms, fluid imbalances must be corrected without delay.
In some patients, permanent neurologic damage may remain, requiring physical or educational special services and equipment.
It is important to note that animal and human studies have shown that neurologic and behavioral abnormalities can be present without characteristic facial features.
Just as a stroke can occur in an adult and cause neurologic damage in an adult, so too can this type of event occur in the fetus.
Many children with Lyme disease can develop neurologic symptoms within a few weeks following a tick bite.
Narcolepsy is not a degenerative disease, however, and patients do not develop other neurologic symptoms.
Neurologic abnormalities resulting in poor coordination and an unsteady gait (ataxia).
Other drugs, notably the tricyclic antidepressants and anti-epileptic agents, such as gabapentin, have been used to relieve pain, particularly neurologic pain, but are not routinely classified as analgesics.
Others are due to metabolic or neurologic disease.
Outcomes include an increased risk of long-term neurologic and behavioral handicaps, possible intrauterine demise, low blood sugar (hypoglycemia), and low body temperature (hypothermia).
Persistent elevated levels of bilirubin in the body can place infants at risk of neurotoxicity or bilirubin-induced neurologic dysfunction (BIND).
Second, the onset of premature labor may be induced, in part, by complications that have already caused neurologic damage in the fetus.
The decision was influenced by reports that LYMErix may be responsible for neurologic complications in vaccinated patients.
The most difficult time to diagnose A-T is during the period when neurologic symptoms start to appear (early childhood) and the typical telangiectasias have not yet appeared.
The remaining 15 percent of CP cases are due to neurologic injury sustained after birth.
There are no risks associated with initial neurologic assessment.
This symptom results from neurologic abnormalities affecting the cerebellum that controls balance.
Treatment of underlying metabolic or neurologic diseases, when possible, may help relieve symptoms.
Unfortunately, in the 1990s, there has been some concern about serious neurologic side effects from the vaccine itself.