Today, multiple sclerosis is found in many patients. 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 impaired muscle movement control processes, to 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 alien microbes and protect the body, begin to make mistakes and attack their own tissues, causing multiple sclerosis. What is it? In simple terms, in this case, immune cells begin to attack their own tissues of two components of the nervous system - the spinal cord and the 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. A plaque - scar tissue - appears if 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 form.
Destructible protective shell, it is called myelin, can be restored. However, this process does not occur so fast as to “overtake” developing damage.
Multiple Sclerosis: Symptoms
The most common signs of the disease are numbness, tingling, severe weakness in the limbs, imbalance, double vision, and other visual impairments. More rare symptoms are problems with coordination of movement, unexpected paralysis, impaired speech, cognitive changes. A progressive disease leads to muscle spasms, constant fatigue, a strong sensitivity to heat, impaired mental activity and perception of reality. Inherent in this disease and sexual disorders. All of these can be symptoms of a disease like sclerosis.
What it is? 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 remember for a long time the words, the places where he was, the actions that he took. The situation is heating up to the point that the patient becomes unable to perform basic household chores.
It is worth knowing about such syndromes of multiple sclerosis, such as "crawling creeps", 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 a 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!