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Symptoms and Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis

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What is Multiple Sclerosis (MS) ?

Multiple sclerosis is one of the autoimmune disorder, in which the immune system is misdirected because he saw the body’s own cells as foreign and attack it. In MS, the body attacks the myelin sheath that protects nerve fibers in the central nervous system. The result is several (multiple) injuries that cause scarring (sclerosis = hardening).

Myelin serves to accelerate the transfer of information. Without this sheath, the transmission of neural information from the brain to the body gradually slowed or inhibited. This leads to disruption of motor nerve and sensory nerves. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease that affects young adults. The disease usually begins between the ages of 20 and 50 years and two times more prevalent in women than in men. About 20% of people affected by MS have close relatives who are also affected by this disease.

What are Signs of Multiple Sclerosis?

Multiple Sclerosis Signs and Symptoms:

Symptoms and signs of multiple sclerosis vary widely, depending on the central nervous system are affected. Each patient had clinical symptoms and progression of different diseases. All the elements of physical, sensory and motor may be affected in varying degrees. Most people with MS experience more than one symptom. The following symptoms are common to many people, but no one has all the symptoms simultaneously:

Visual disturbances: blurred vision, double vision / ghosting (diplopia), sudden blindness in one eye, uncontrollable eye movements, total blindness (extremely rare).
Motor symptoms: muscle weakness hinder local movements, difficulty controlling movement, trembling.
Impaired sensibility: the reduction of sensitivity in some parts of the body, stiffness, itching or local pain brief, the feeling of electric shock
Cognitive symptoms: problems with some brain functions like memory, attention disorders, etc.
Urinary Disorders: urinary incontinence.
Impaired balance and coordination: loss of balance.

MS is a relapsing-remitting disease, with symptoms appearing in the period between cycles interspersed with no symptoms (asymptomatic). But there are also forms of MS who developed slowly and evolutive. In this case, the symptoms progress slowly, but steadily and without asymptomatic period.

MS is a disease that is very erratic and unpredictable. A person with MS can be a serious relapse and worse so it seems to be always in a wheelchair, and then suddenly improved and could walk again. This causes difficulties in certain cases to predict the progression of the disease (complete healing, while healing, worse, etc.).

Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis is still not curable, but not deadly. There is a treatment that allows to delay the progression of the disease and reduce the spread, intensity and duration of symptoms. Injections of corticosteroids may be used for this purpose.

Immuno suppressive treatment is sometimes used but have the disadvantage as they often cause side effects. MS conducted in multidisciplinary treatment involving at least one neurologist and a rehabilitation physician.