Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis is also referred as (MS). Multiple sclerosis is a nervous system disease which affects your brain and spinal cord. It is a non-contagious chronic autoimmune disorder of the central nervous system which leads to variety of neurological symptoms occurring in small attacks. The disease damages the myelin sheath which is the very material that protects the nerve cells of our body. This damage blocks the messages between your brain and your body making you partially paralytic. Multiple sclerosis affects women comparatively more than men and often occurs within the age of 20 and 40.
Causes:
The cause of multiple sclerosis is unknown. It is thought to be an autoimmune disease which happens when body attacks itself. MS is very complex and the probable cause is thought to be a combination of environmental and genetic factors.
Symptoms
Generally affected individuals experience a large variety of symptoms such as:
- Double or hazy vision: Before the actual vision is lost the patients suffers from vision changes, blurred or hazy vision, flashing lights, or alterations in color.
- Visual disturbances
- Numbness and itchy sensation
- Muscle weakness
- Muffled speech
- Lack of coordination
- Cognitive difficulties
- Thinking and memory problems
- Sometimes the patient also suffers from constipation and urinary retention.
- Patients may also experience facial pain, sensation of spinning, or sometimes hearing loss.
Diagnosis and Treatment
Usually the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis is made as a result of clinical symptoms and neurological examinations Such as:
- Electrical tests are conducted which may indicate short-circuiting in central nervous system. These are termed as evoked tests because responsiveness of nervous system is evoked with a specific stimulus. If the stimulus takes a long time to reach the brain then possibly short-circuiting can be the cause.
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows the brain to be seen without surgery. It is particularly sensitive to multiple sclerosis and so it becomes an important to diagnosis.
As no way is known to prevent or cure multiple diagnoses perfectly, the main focus of daily care is intended at symptoms management. Several different drugs have been developed to treat the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. There are different therapies used for the patients suffering from acute attacks. Primary aims of therapies are returning functions after an attack, and preventing disability, some of which treatments involve combinations of drugs like glatiramer acetate, mitoxantrone. At the same time different alternatives treatments are made possible for the patients. This includes:
Cure through vitamin D. It may influence positively to the immune system of the patients. Vitamin D affects chemicals which modulate the immune system called cytokines which are beneficial to the patients.
So now cure to multiple sclerosis is also possible.