What are the systems involved in MS?
What’s the incidence?
Immune and neurological
20-40years old
What is MS?
Chronic, progressive disease that leads to increasing disability
What can MS medications help with?
- Speed recovery from the attacks
2. Changes the course of the disease and symptoms
MS is the most common central nervous system among young adults in Canada. True or false
True
What does MS damage?
What symptoms does this cause?
- Damages the myelin sheet (protective coating on the nerve fibers)They detach and eventually get destroyed.
- This may cause pain, numbness, tingling
The cause for MS is known (cause that triggers autoimmune response). True or false?
False
Why is there a delay between clinical onset and diagnosis?
Because the symptoms can vary from person or person, MS can get mixed up with other conditions and the symptoms come and go.
- The life expectancy of individuals with MS is the same as av population life expectancy minus _____ years
- Why has the life expectancy increased?
- 7 years
2. Better treatment, drugs, better knowledge of the disease, better nutrition, earlier diagnosis
What are the risk factors that increase the chances of getting MS?
Age, sex, family history, race, certain infections, certain autoimmune diseases , smoking, climate
What are T cells and monocytes?
T cells destroy the body’s tissue and monocytes guide the T-cells
What are the symptoms for:
- Optic nerve lesion
- Brain stem lesion
- Cerebellum lesion
- Motor nerve tract lesion
- Sensory nerve tract lesion
- Blurred vision
- Double vision, dizziness
- Coordination, speech, balance, tremor
- Bladder and bowel impairment, muscle weakness, spasticity paralysis
- Altered sensation, burning, numbness, prickling
Classification of MS is based on:
- Rate of progression
2. Number of attacks
