NS Disease 1-Multiple Schlerosis

Multiple sclerosis is a disease of unknown cause that manifests as multiple hard clumps of degeneration of the insulating layer of nerve fibers in the central nervous system. The loss of insulation allows “short circuiting” of nerve impulses. Depending upon where the degeneration occurs, patients may suffer paralysis, sensory disturbances or blindness. Some symptoms of multiple sclerosis include:

• Numbness or weakness in one or more limbs that typically occurs on one side of your body at a time, or the legs and trunk.
• Partial or complete loss of vision, usually in one eye at a time, often with pain during eye movement.
• Double vision or blurring of vision.
• Tingling and pain in parts of the body
• Tremors
• Slurred speech
• Fatigue
• Bowel and bladder problems

About 60-70% of people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis have treatments that worsen over time. Multiple sclerosis is twice as likely to affect women than men and can be passed down through genetics. There are no treatments for multiple sclerosis, but there are numerous options of treatment to alleviate the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and to calm down multiple sclerosis attacks. For example, there is corticosteroids which is prescribed to reduce nerve inflammation. Another form of treatment is plasma exchange. This is done by removing plasma from blood cells and replacing them with a protein called albumin. More than 400,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. 

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https://www.dmu.edu/medterms/nervous-system/nervous-system-diseases/