This condition is the most common autoimmune neuromuscular disorder.
It is a condition that makes voluntary muscles (muscles you control) weak around the body by affecting the normal message signals between nerves and muscle.
Symptoms can vary and is not usually painful except for neck muscles.
Myasthenia gravis symptoms can get worst (myasthenic crisis) by certain triggers these include:
An autoimmune disease where the immune system attacks its own body tissue by producing antibodies that block signals from our nerves to our muscles
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Symptoms
Eye(s)/eyelid muscles drooping causing blurred or double vision any visual problems, colour blindness, double vision, vision loss, difficulty focusing, and/or pain behind eye (One or both eyes can be affected)?
Muscles on the face affected, is one showing a change in facial expression e.g. a snarling smile?
Difficulty using arms, body and legs,lack of stamina and/or walking difficulties?
Infants of mothers who have myasthenia gravis may develop a temporary (transient) form of the disorder beginning within approximately 48 hours after birth.
It is caused by genetic defects of muscle and nerve communication of the infant.
Symptoms include (Such abnormalities may be present for days to weeks, after which affected infants have normal muscle strength):
Generalized muscle weakness and low muscle tone (hypotonia)
Weak eye muscles, with double or blurred vision, and often drooping eyelids with facial weakness (Argyll Robertson pupil is the most common ocular finding. It is described as pupils that constrict with accommodation but do not constrict with exposure to light).
Speech problems
Abnormal facial expression with inability to smile or whistle
Problems with co-ordination
Absence of deep tendon reflexes
Tingling and numbness on body causing patient to fall
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