Multiple sclerosis and greater prevalence
Introduction
It is a demyelinizing disease that occurs more frequently in women and this disease affects the central nervous system, it is said that this disease is degenerative and autoimmune, since the immune system, which is responsible for defending the human body of infections as viruses and bacteria.
On this occasion it acts against myelin sheath destroying it and this produces inflammation and pod injuries, affecting the axon and their respective peripheral projections of the sensitive neurons that surround them and with this decreasing the nerve impulses that travel to the brain for Then be prosecuted, causing neurological anomalies.
Developing
According to this disease, it is more frequent in people between 20 and 40 years old, but this does not rule out that it can be found in children and older adults. As mentioned above, this disease is due to the fact that lymphocytes attack myelin, which is a protective fat of neurons and when it suffers damage, motor activity suffers severe consequences, that can occur in any area of the brain, the medulla spinal and optical nerve, which together form the CNS.
It is not known what the disease causes, but it is said that a person who has a family history of multiple sclerosis can also possess it. Multiple sclerosis causes disability and occurs in different ways in activities of everyday life and can be both basic and instrumental.
In the basics we find self-care such as bathroom, food, continence, mobility, etc. And in the instrumental are the decision making, domestic economy. It is not known exactly what causes multiple sclerosis. The most frequent belief is that guilty are a virus, a genetic defect, or both. Environmental factors can also play a role.
Symptoms
The symptoms suffered by those suffering from this disease are several and vary in each person, among those who stand out the most we find: clumsiness, visual alterations, reduced sensitivity, sudden parity of bladder control, among others. In addition, the severity of the symptoms vary in each case although they are normally experienced in unpredictable periods.
Among other symptoms that EM carries: muscle symptoms: loss of balance, muscle spasms, numbness in any area, difficulty when walking, difficulty with coordination, weakness in arms and legs, vesical and intestinal symptoms: constipation and escape from feces and urine, difficulty when urinating and frequent need to urinate.
Ocular symptoms: double vision, eye discomfort and loss of vision, brain and neurological symptoms: decrease in concentration, loss of the ability to discern, memory loss, depression and hearing loss, sexual symptoms: erection and erection problems: erection problems and Vaginal lubrication, speech and swallowing symptoms: bad language articulation and problems chewing and swallowing. And the fatigue that one of the most common symptoms in people suffering from this disease.
Multiple sclerosis lasts between days, weeks and months, and also as it appears disappears over time and this is because myelin that is destroyed by the immune system is built again around the neuron or nerve, for this reason the People who suffer from this disease, cannot walk, or do basic tasks and after days or months they are fine, doing everything they could not do before, but like all disease multiple sclerosis always leaves their sequelae, and as the person suffers More frequently these attacks is being left with a percentage of disability and at the time of improvement it does not do it at all.
A doctor can deduce that a patient has EM if there are signs of more than two attacks in the central nervous system, in addition the patient is performed a series of magnetic resonances to exactly check what the affected area is, for example: if A person has em detected in the brain and a magnetic resonance is performed.
In the respective examination, the magnitude of the seriousness of this disease can be visualized, since over time the exam will throw different images in which you can see the amount of brain that this person is losing and therefore they obtain more percentage of disability.
So far there is no cure for multiple sclerosis, since the symptoms are different from each person, there is only a treatment that does not heal you simply helps you control symptoms and delay the process of evolution of the disease. Among the treatment are physiotherapies, muscle relaxants, since they help reduce pain, delay disease and fight fatigue.
conclusion
According to the highest prevalence of EM, they are found in northern Europe, northern America, southern Canada, New Zealand and southern Australia close to 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. And as seen, EM is more common in regions whose populations come from northern Europe and is less frequent in regions with native populations such as Africa and Asia. Ecuador instead has a mestizo population mainly, in which the genetic contribution to the chromosome and of the population was 70% European, 28% Amerindia and 2% African, which could explain the low prevalence are their own Caucasian population disease.
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