The Nurse Is Teaching a Patient with Guillain-Barr Syndrome About

Multiple Choice

The nurse is teaching a patient with Guillain-Barr syndrome about the disease. The patient asks how he can ever recover if demyelination of his nerves is occurring. What would be the nurses best response?

A) Guillain-Barr spares the Schwann cell, which allows for remyelination in the recovery phase of the disease.
B) In Guillain-Barr, Schwann cells replicate themselves before the disease destroys them, so remyelination is possible.
C) I know you understand that nerve cells do not remyelinate, so the physician is the best one to answer your question.
D) For some reason, in Guillain-Barr, Schwann cells become activated and take over the remyelination process.