Multiple Sclerosis Disease
By Paul Ledesma at St. Philips College
cord.”(UMMC.edu pg.1). With a quick fix from
proper medications and therapy, the symptoms and
incorrect impulses will then stop.
Abstract
An uncommon disease that starts in the brain and
attacks the rest of the human body by becoming the
control center for the body, it goes undiagnosed
until symptoms begin to affect the body, this
disease is known as MS (Multiple Sclerosis). The
human body reacts to the disease by causing
numbness, fatigue, and eventually paralysis. Once
the body has acquired Multiple Sclerosis, the
disease is incurable, but can be stabilized. The
disease is common in people with a certain age,
gender, or with a family history of the disease.
Once the medications ware off, the body may go into
a relapse-remitting stage and reoccur the symptoms
in a greater or short time span without notice. In
Initially Multiple Sclerosis affects the three
some cases the symptoms persist and are too
major systems; immune system, nervous system and uncontrollable to stabilize without becoming
musculoskeletal system. The disease of Multiple
hospitalized. Multiple sclerosis varies from case to
Sclerosis starts with making the immune system
case; each case has its specific problems that may
weak, causing uncontrollable dizziness and fatigue; not affect other bodies, making each treatment
not allowing the body to function correctly and
different form medications to therapy.
giving the wrong impression of dehydration. With
the immune system becoming weaker; the body then Multiple Sclerosis begins in the center of the brain
full a dark grey matter as seen on an MRI,
becomes more susceptible to the common cough,
eventually the dark gray
cold and other natural health diseases.
matter will then spread
Furthermore, MS will then begin to spread to the
throughout the brain
Nervous system transmitting incorrect impulses to
growing in one spot.
every organ, muscle, and soft tissue. The affected
Catching Multiple
part of the brain gives off signals through the
Sclerosis before it
nervous system to the human body physically
spread, gives a greater
shutting it down without warning. When the organ is
chance of stability for
attacked by incorrect impulses, the organ will begin
the disease not to spread
function incorrectly causing pain and physically
throughout the brain.
shutting down on its own. In the musculoskeletal
system fibers began to break down making the body As stated in “Plain Patient Education” “…the brain
unable to stand or lift itself without assistance. Once is made of cells. The cells of the brain and nerves are
called neurons.”(nlm.nih.gov pg.1) The brain is the
the muscle fibers become weaker, the nerves begin
control center of the body, it sends and receives
to cause pa