Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune type of abnormal immune system turns against itself include healthy cells instead of fighting against the encroachment of pathogens. Body cells that are first and foremost by the immune system in the case of patients with multiple sclerosis, nerve cells targeted. In fact, the autoimmune reaction of the body is not the nerve cells are destroyed directly, producing the antibodies of the immune system malfunctions myelin, a protein that surrounds the cells of the nervous system to destroy, in facilitating communication between the central nervous system (CNS – brain and spinal cord) and peripheral nerves, and vice versa.
Multiple sclerosis is a complex disease of the central nervous system, peripheral nerves of the brain and spinal cord. Currently, the specific causes of multiple sclerosis is unknown, and therefore the disease can be effectively prevented or cured. However, the good news is that MS is not a fatal disease and current treatments successfully keep symptoms under control is created. With the help of proper treatment, the disease progression can be slowed, and the MS patients can live normal, active life.
At first, the causes of multiple sclerosis only changes in the central nervous system. In the later stages of progression, MS can affect virtually any innervated region of the body (the body part that contains a network of nerves). Without proper medical treatment – which is more effective when administered in the early stages of the disease – Multiple sclerosis can cause a variety of disabilities and even death.
What types of multiple sclerosis?
There are four main types of multiple sclerosis, with symptoms of varying severity. They are:
Benign
Relapse / remission (RRMS)
Secondary progressive (SPMS)
Primary progressive
People with MS have mild occasional attacks while feeling perfectly healthy at other times. Suffer only a mild disability or no disability at all, the medical examination also shows signs of brain damage from multiple sclerosis. The absence of a disability, because the damage can be in places in the brain that cause no obvious obstruction or damage is minimal.
More than fifty percent of patients with relapsing-remitting MS start / MS relapses can two or three times a year with the partial or total at other times. Due to the progressive death of nerve cells and myelin, the symptoms can get worse and more frequent. This leads them to the stage of secondary progressive MS (SPMS).
In high school, disability or progressive MS SPPS increased because it a progressive loss of nerve cells. During this phase, the patient is more recurrent and worsening disability.
Some people are more and more people with disabilities, without relapses and remissions. This type of MS is called primary progressive multiple sclerosis.
Spectrum of symptoms of multiple sclerosis – Multiple sclerosis can affect almost every level of the body, resulting in a wide range of symptoms. The most common symptoms of MS include physical muscle pain, swelling, numbness, weakness, poor body mobility, extreme fatigue, loss of dexterity, lack of balance, uncoordinated movements, decreased vision. Poor concentration, poor mental performance, short-term memory, the process involved: common neuropsychological symptoms of MS. In extreme cases, MS can lead to depression, mania and dementia.
The diagnosis of multiple sclerosis – Multiple sclerosis is diagnosed, to develop physical and neuropsychological examinations, and specific procedures and medical lab tests.Common means of diagnosis of MS is magnetic resonance imaging and lumbar puncture procedures that can reveal possible damage to myelin.
Several options for the treatment of MS – Multiple Sclerosis treatments, doctors are often individualized depending on the experience of patients’ symptoms. Multiple Sclerosis Treatment usually involves the use of interferon beta, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and corticosteroids. These drugs can relieve the symptoms of most physicists produced multiple sclerosis, and prevent their recurrence. If the disease affects the cognitive functions of the body that are commonly prescribed drugs, selective inhibitors of serotonin reuptake and stimulating the nervous system.
