MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

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• The most common disease in young adults
• All symptoms are different
• Currently no cure or prevention methods

WHAT IS MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS?

• neuroinflammatory disease that affects myelin
• Refers to the distinctive areas of scaring
• MS rarely causes severe disability

SYMPTOMS

• vision problems such as blurred or double vision or optic neuritis, which causes pain in the eye and a rapid loss of vision. weak, stiff muscles, often with painful muscle spasms tingling or numbness in the arms, legs, trunk of the body, or face clumsiness, particularly difficulty staying balanced when walking bladder control problems, either inability to control the bladder or urgency dizziness that doesn't go away
• Later Symptoms
• mental or physical fatigue which accompanies the above symptoms during an attack mood changes such as depression or euphoria changes in the ability to concentrate or to multitask effectively difficulty making decisions, planning, or prioritizing at work or in private life.

TREATMENT

• There is still no cure for MS, but there are treatments for initial attacks, medications and therapies to improve symptoms, and recently developed drugs to slow the worsening of the disease. These new drugs have been shown to reduce the number and severity of relapses and to delay the long term progression of MS.

NEW HOPE FOR THE TREATMENT OF MS