Critical Medicine and Treatment

Archive for the ‘Multiple Sclerosis’ Category

Unfortunately, now it is an incurable disease.

The goal of treatment is:

- Reduce or modify the clinical symptoms and signs.

- Reduce the time or effort to limit the effects of a relapse.

- Preventing the progression or reduce the clinical course.

- Provide assistance to the patient and the family.

The most used drugs are:

Treatment with steroids can shorten the duration and in some cases the severity of each attack (called an outbreak). They are used in tablets or injections. Read the rest of this entry »

What are the symptoms of multiple sclerosis?

MS attacks may develop over days or weeks and may leave the patient incapacitated. This first episode is followed by other attacks in a period of unpredictable weather, which can be short or prolonged period of time. The symptoms vary with each patient, considering all that can attack the nervous system.

A common symptom of the onset of disease is the inflammation of the optic nerve causes a decrease in vision accompanied by pain behind the eye. In general, after several weeks the vision will be partially or completely. The alteration occurs mainly in central vision. Read the rest of this entry »

What is multiple sclerosis?

Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), which is a destruction of the substance that coats nerve fibers (myelin), without which neural transmission is severely affected.

This destruction is due to inflammatory events that leave areas of the nerve without the myelin sheath. They are called “plaques”, hence also called sclerosis.

The affected areas can recover remielinizarse and therefore nerve transmission or stay permanently affected, producing an operating deficit of the affected nerve tissue. The progression of the disease can sometimes lead to a state of severe physical disability and limit the patient’s life. Life expectancy is 82.5% of the normal pattern. Read the rest of this entry »