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Q: Symptoms of genetic neurological disorders

asked by: DoctorQuestion on December 29th, 2008

hai sir this problem has been arise at the period of my granpa's father. The nerve problem occurs by generation wise.

symptoms:The nerves in our body hand,leg,fingers and all will be
deactivated.
at the time of:
1)cool climate eg:in hill stations like ooty,kodaikanal,kashmir etc.

2)if we didnt take food at the time of hungry it leads to nerve deactivation.

3)whenever the body gets cool temperature it causes.

when the nerves are deactivated due to above reasons after sometimes (4hour or 5hour or it may take one day)automatically it will get activated. if we get hot temperature it will become normal.we cant do any work fastly. we will lose our strength and balance. we cant suggest that whether it is a disease or not. But it will wont affect or reduces our life expectancy.my grandpa live 75yrs with this problem.so plz tell me how we can solve this problem.

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Dr. Goce Aleksovski , MD

replied on January 20th, 2009

Muscular and Nerve Disorders Answer A5402

The fact that the symptoms run in the family for several generations indicates that a genetic disorder might be the problem. No data can be found about the symptoms you reported: loss of muscle control, strength and balance that are triggered by low temperature and return by themselves after a time or in a higher temperature.

You might want to visit a neurologist for further examination. He might want to perform various tests: basic laboratory tests, electromyography, Electroencephalography and do certain tests to determine whether “cold” antibodies are present. “Cold” antibodies are antibodies that exist in the body, but are functional only at extremely low temperatures. But it would be very hard to answer the fact that the symptoms disappear spontaneously after a time without a change of the surrounding conditions.

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