Multiple sclerosis occurs in many patients these days. Let's try to figure out how sclerosis appears, what it is and how to deal with it.
In fact, sclerosis is a disease of the spinal cord and brain, leading to disturbances in the processes of controlling muscle movements, visual impairment, loss of coordination and sensitivity. Multiple sclerosis - what is it? If you look inside the body, you can see how the nerve cells of the spinal cord and brain are damaged due to attacks from their own immune system. Therefore, this disease is included in the group of autoimmune.
What are autoimmune diseases
These are diseases in which the body's immune cells, designed to fight foreign microbes and protect the body, begin to make mistakes and attack their own tissues, causing multiple sclerosis. What's this? In simple terms, in this case, immune cells begin to attack their own tissues of the two components of the nervous system - the spinal cord and brain. According to this principle, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus develop.
When is sclerosis diagnosed? What it is? This is the appearance of scar tissue in the spinal cord or brain. Plaque - scar tissue - appears inif the protective layer of nerve fibers is destroyed. When this layer is destroyed, brain signals are either suppressed or reach their destination in a distorted way.
Destructible protective sheath, it is called myelin, can be restored. However, this process is not so fast as to "overtake" the developing damage.
Multiple sclerosis symptoms
The most common symptoms of the disease are numbness, tingling, severe weakness in the limbs, imbalance, double vision and other visual disturbances. More rare symptoms are problems with coordination of movement, sudden paralysis, speech impairment, cognitive changes. A progressive disease leads to muscle spasms, constant fatigue, strong sensitivity to heat, disturbances in mental activity and perception of reality. Inherent in this disease and violations of a sexual nature. All of these can be symptoms of a disease such as multiple sclerosis.
What is this? If we talk about the external manifestations of the disease, then a person with sclerosis is no longer able to perceive the surrounding life, as before. He cannot quickly and correctly formulate his thought and express it. He can recall words, places he has been, actions he has taken for a long time. The situation escalates to the point that the patient becomes unable to perform basic household chores.
It is worth knowing about multiple sclerosis syndromes such as"Crawling crawling", burning and itching, pain that occurs anywhere. However, these sensations do not lead to disability and are treated with medications.
All patients experience chronic fatigue, especially towards the end of the day. The patient is literally haunted by the desire to sleep. But the worst thing in this disease is muscle spasms. This leads the patient to disability. Even small suspicions of sclerosis should alert and literally drive a person to the hospital!
