How is Multiple Sclerosis?
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.Treatment with interferon, is promising to reduce the occurrence of new attacks and the extent of neurological involvement. In recent years, some groups of patients with multiple sclerosis have followed this treatment by intramuscular or subcutaneous injections. The main drawback of this treatment is its high cost and long life.
Treatment with amitriptyline, fluoxetine or other antidepressants, this treatment will take place in case of depression.
After each attack is very important to quickly appropriate physical therapy to regain lost functions.
Is it possible, at the beginning of the disease, predict the progress of this?
It is not possible to predict the progression of multiple sclerosis. The progressive course of the disease is variable and there are different forms of disease. In fact, it is impossible to give a forecast for a given patient, at least until the expiration of 5 to 10 years since its evolution.
credit to: Dr. Jimmy Alfonso Schiemann Delgado, Dr. Per Rochat, Dr. Claus Madsen, Dr. Dan Rutherford