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Primary periodic paralysis
Primary periodic paralysis · ICD-10: G72.3
Symptoms
- • Attacks of muscle weakness or paralysis that come and go; normal strength between attacks
- • Mostly shoulders and hips; sometimes breathing and swallowing muscles
- • Often on waking or resting after exercise
- • Triggered by high-carbohydrate or salty meals, stress, cold
- • Each attack lasts hours to a day; the person stays alert