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What Are The Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms?
Multiple sclerosis is a difficult illness that affects more than one million people. Those affected loose control over their senses, because attacks the central nervous system, which processes the signals sent from the nerves in the body, making us able to touch, see, smell and everything else.
These nerves are protected by a membrane called myelin. When a patient has multiple sclerosis, the central nervous system sends the white blood cells and antibodies against the myelin, damaging it and causing a temporary loss of the sense involved. Antibodies together with white blood cells are cells that the central nervous system controls, and that are designed to fight viruses, bacteria, and infections that enter the body. interferes with the normal defense process and makes the central nervous system confuse normal body cells with viruses and send the guardians cells attack them.
Why does this happen? The cause of is not known yes, research is still in progress and scientists hope to find the causes soon.
The symptoms of are very different from one patient to another, because they depend on which of the senses is affected by the attack. However there are some general symptoms that appear at many of those suffering from multiple sclerosis. Among these more general symptoms the most common are:
-loss of strength and dexterity
-mood swings, the patient can feel euphoria and the sadness and depression
-general state of weakness and fatigue
-memory loss
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-balance loss
The others symptoms depend on the sense that is affected.
If the visual sense in involved then blurred vision, temporary loss of vision, double vision, eye pain and disability to distinguish colors occurs.
If the motor system gets attacked the patient experiences involuntary leg and hand movement, sudden loss of strength and balance, temporary paralysis, problems while speaking or shaking and tremor.
Other particular symptoms are acid reflux, memory loss, irregular bowel activity, respiratory issues and sometimes seizures.
Symptoms vary very much so it's quite difficult for doctors to recognize multiple sclerosis. If you experience any of the things mentioned above visit a doctor for a complete series of tests and evaluation that can help find if you have or not. If you are diagnosed with this illness you must begin therapy at once. Unfortunately cannot be cured, the only thing that can be done to help patients with it is to relieve its symptoms and to try to reduce the intensity of the attacks or completely stop them if possible.
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