CharcotMaie Tooth Info

Charcot Marie Toothe Syndrome is thought to be hereditary, but I think that although it appears in members of families more than randomly (in a certain persons) that it is really an autoimmune disorder caused by an infectious process that occurred early in life. 

I had a number of patients with such a condition and eventually I learned that it is caused by Streptococcus infections in certain individuals. The same individuals have coronary artery disease and cardiac arrhythmias more frequently than others because the autoimmune disease is systemic in nature. 

This opinion is not shared by others, generally, but, again, no one really knows and the idea of it being hereditary has never been firmly proven. 

Tonsillitis, strep throat, rheumatic fever, scarlet fever, and other diseases caused by Streptococcus pyogenes cause the autoimmune condition. Most people do not know if they had rheumatic fever since it has so many variations in presentation. Some people think they had a severe flu. Some people think that they had growing pains when they were young. Most people have obsessive-compulsive tendencies. Such tendencies do not have to seem abnormal or bad, really, but most people have them. 

The high arches develop due to inflammation of the plantar fascia when a child is young and when they start walking they develop more inflammation and it contracts during sleep, little by little and when bones firm up as the child gets older they have the firm high arch appearance. The same autoimmune disease causes the nerves to slowly became less functional and people get smaller muscles in the calf and a sense of numbness of the lower leg and probably the lateral thigh and buttock. Some people have low back or buttock pain along with it sometimes in their lives. 

Yours, 

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