Anyone heard of "Gale Charbonneau" disease???

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Specializes in rehab; med/surg; l&d; peds/home care.

Hi everyone...

I have a friend who sent an email asking about this...and this is exactly how the person spelled it. I tried googling it...but came up empty. I know sometimes diseases have odd names, but I've never heard of this in the 14 years I've been a nurse. I know the spelling could be wrong, obviously and I did try alternate spellings with google, as well.

Anyone know the answer? I knew if anyone knew it, it would be someone here!!! :)

Thanks to anyone who can help!!!

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Specializes in ER/Trauma.

No idea. :confused:

The only Carbonneau I know is the indefatigable Guy Carbonneau!

cheers,

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Specializes in Emergency & Trauma/Adult ICU.

I'm stumped. I also googled it using several spelling variations and checked the NIH/NORD database of rare disorders and came up empty.

Let us know if you find any more info. Perhaps the friend who emailed you could shed some light.

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Specializes in tele, oncology.

The closest I can come up with is Guillian Barre...if I even spelled it right. Just b/c they both start with "G" and sound French.

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Specializes in Peds/Neo CCT,Flight, ER, Hem/Onc.

:yeahthat:

I'm with MamaD. When Guillian Barre is pronounced CORRECTLY I think a non-medical person could come up with Gale Charbonneau.

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What about something like Lennox-Gastaut? Again, not very close, but some rhyming.

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Specializes in Emergency & Trauma/Adult ICU.

Search NIH/NORD again for disorders named for individuals with names of French origin ...? :wink2:

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Specializes in Staff nurse.

Put it in the search engine on Yahoo, it comes up with a few different places to click on.

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Specializes in rehab; med/surg; l&d; peds/home care.

yeah, i searched yahoo as well. and i first thought of guillain-barre...because my friend is saying it's a rare disease...it makes sense. she just wrote down what the doctor said and asked me about it, but i told her i've never heard of such a thing. *shrugs* she asked for prayers, as the person is now on life-support. it is a relative of one of my friends, so i am not familiar with the person who's sick.. and sure don't want to ask so many questions of my friend as she is upset.

thanks to everyone who answered!!! i know if ANYONE would know about this, it would be someone from here, because the world's smartest are all here!!! :) if anyone later comes up with anything...let me know! thanks again to all who answered :)

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