Multiple Sclerosis (Ms) By: Kennedy Warning Class hour: 5th

Basic History and Description In the late 1300s, a disease appeared and no one knew what it was. Until 1868, when a Famous neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot, lectured on the features of the disease and gave it the name Multiple Sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis is a disease that effects the nervous system and the massages that are sent though the body to keep the body stable. It is not contagious, but it is a life long disease. There are four types of the disease, clinically isolated syndrome, relapsing-remitting, secondary- progressive, and primary-progressive. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

Who’s most effected? Anyone can get MS, but some groups of people are more effected than others, for one, women. Women are more likely to get MS than men. Some are even scared to have children, even though MS doesn’t effect pregnancy. More ethnic groups of race are more likely to develop the disease than non-ethnic groups. These ethnic groups include: African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics/Latinos. People between the ages of 20 and 50, tend to develop MS than others. Kids can get MS, but it usually has something to do with genetics. For example, if a Mother or Father has MS, then a child would have a 2.5% chance of developing MS. If one twin has MS, then the other would have a 25% chance of developing.

Symptoms MS can cause many different symptoms sometimes one leading to the other. Symptoms of MS can come and go, or disappear completely. Some common symptoms are. *Vision problems *Fatigue *Pins and needles feeling or numbness *Short-term memory lose *Problems with coordination *Depression *Muscles spasms *Pain *ect.

What does it do to the nervous system? The nervous system becomes slowly unable to send messages throughout the body to the different systems to carry out tasks. With the damaged myelin, protective tissues around nerves, Massages stop getting sent smoothly and sometimes don’t get sent at all.

Is there a cure? As of now, there is no cure for MS. There are treatments for it though. Treatments for MS are... *Aubagio *Avone *Copaxone *physical therapy Self care is also important. For self care you need to exercise. Do something to get many parts of your body moving. The treatments help slow down the process of MS, it does not stop it.

White blood cells and Myelin The cause of MS is actually by the body itself. White blood cells come out of the blood vessels and soon, if it finds a nerve, the white blood cells will start attacking the protective tissue over the nerves called myelin. No one really knows why the white blood cells do this. After the myelin is damaged, the massages sent from the brain to other parts of the body take longer to be received. Which causes the symptoms to appear.

Is there way to prevent it? There is no way to prevent MS as there is no cure. Doctors and teams of MS victims are working together to find a cure. There are treatments that slow down the process of this though.

Daily life with MS Over 2.3 million people in this world have MS, but everyone has it a little different. Kristen decker at the age of 23, found out she had MS. Years later she is still thriving. She was scared at first, because it all happened so quickly. Now she watches what she eats, does her treatment, and exercises everyday. She is also helping to look for a cure.

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