Multiple sclerosis is a disease that causes numerous scars on the brain's nerves and spinal cord. Scars prevent nerves from functioning properly and the patient may suffer one or more seizures during the year lasting for days or several months. Multiple sclerosis worsens with time and may cause disability, but most people live normally.
Early symptoms of multiple sclerosis
Feeling tingling or pain in the face, arms or legs
Poor sense of touch
Tips in the muscles of the hand or leg
Vision Problems
Symptoms of the disease:
Poor motor performance
A sensation of tingling, numbness, or tips in arms or legs
Sensations similar to electric shock when the neck bent forward
Painful muscle spasms
Difficulty in balance walking
Stuttering and slow speech
Depression or mood swings
Dizziness
Problems with urination or prominence
Reasons
There is no obvious cause of multiple sclerosis, but it is often believed that the immune system attacks the body's tissue, attacks nerves in the brain and spinal cord, and causes damage to them.
Risk factors
Women are more likely to develop MS disease than men.
The family history of the disease
Some viral infections of multiple sclerosis such as the virus that causes infectious leukemia,.
Race: White people are more vulnerable to the disease
Smoking
Thyroid disease, diabetes, or malignant anemia.
Complications
Paralysis in part or in whole
Involuntary urination
Alzheimer's disease
Depression and mood swings
Muscle stiffness
Convulsions or seizures of epilepsy
Diagnosis
MRI of the brain and spinal cord.
lumbar puncture examination in some cases
Treatment
There is no definitive cure for the disease, but there are many different drugs that can benefit from treating specific symptoms such as tingling sensation, fatigue, muscle tightness, and depression. Physiotherapists also rehabilitate the patient and help him learn how to perform his functions despite the disability caused by the disease.
Doctors use some practices that contribute to alleviating symptoms of the disease such as:
Doing Regular activities every day
Trying to walk with no one's help for as long as possible
Avoid using hot water
Usage of Vitamin D supplements
Avoid smoking
FAQs
1. Are the symptoms of the disease similar to other diseases?
Vitamin deficiency (B12) may cause multiple sclerosis-like diseases, and lupus symptoms are rare with multiple sclerosis symptoms.
2. Is the MRI test effective for diagnosis?
Magnetic resonance is the only most effective test in the diagnosis of MS, where its images show changes in the stem of the brain and spinal cord.
3. Why do we take a cotton puncture test?
It helps detect signs of inflammation and immune system activity in the brain, spinal cord, and around them.
4. What are multiple types of MS?
Declining relapse pattern
Secondary Progressive Pattern
Initial progressive pattern
Progressive relapse pattern
5. Are the drugs treating MS?
Generally, these drugs do not make the patient feel better, but the patient receiving these drugs is less likely to experience new seizures, and their condition may not worsen to the same level as the patient not receiving treatment.
6. Does MS suffer from pain?
Some people with MS experience pain throughout the disease journey. The patient may experience frequent severe pain in one side of the face, jaw, back, or neck pain for days or weeks, and improve pain with the use of medication.
