Multiple Sclerosis

Hi my name is doctor Justin Davis -- dale -- briefly describing. Multiple sclerosis . Multiple sclerosis . Is also referred to as and acts that simply stands for multiple sclerosis . Multiple sclerosis is a serious and debilitating disease. That affects perhaps 300000 people in the United States and more than a million people worldwide.

insulation and that's like a mile and she. That's what's affected with multiple sclerosis . This always happens in the central nervous system and that means in your brain or your spinal cord so as you can imagine it can be quite serious. When your mileage east become inflamed her broken down eventually this can also affect the nerves and that's what causes -- the symptoms associated. With multiple sclerosis . Now we don't know exactly what causes multiple sclerosis . Probably the best guess right now is that it's an autoimmune disease that means when your own cells attacked her own body. Naturally that shouldn't normally happen but sometimes it doesn't causes different kinds of diseases. There's also different theories out there what the cause multiple sclerosis but in the end nobody knows for sure. He usually multiple sclerosis is diagnosed when someone begins having symptoms that -- be associated with multiple sclerosis . And it can often be confirmed with a special kind of X -- test called an MRI this is actually when we use. Make that -- weeks to look inside the spinal cord in the brain. Symptoms associated with multiple sclerosis . Or variable depending upon where exactly in the nervous system. The brain the spinal cord is affected. -- some of the symptoms may be -- in -- certain losses of vision paralysis dizziness it's usually very variable. End. For some reason it seems to come and go with multiple sclerosis is usually not something that's constant although sometimes it can be. War as the disease gets worse it can become much more frequent. If treatment really depends upon the severity of the disease how frequently occurs in what your symptoms are. So for people with very mild multiple sclerosis . They're meeting new treatment necessary at all or meet you just treat some of the symptoms when the occur. For people when it becomes more serious. Then the treatment will become aimed at preventing some of the information. In the -- sheets surrounding the nerves. There are a number of different kinds of treatments. Usually medicines that are used for multiple sclerosis . There's also many alternative therapies since we don't know exactly what causes this but we suspect it's an autoimmune disease. And sometimes

you think that you may be having symptoms that are consistent with multiple sclerosis . Will remember because multiple sclerosis affects your central nervous system. There's a number of different kinds of diseases or problems that it causes some of them are