What process does multiple sclerosis interfere with

What process does multiple sclerosis interfere with

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease where patches of inflammation occur in parts of the brain and/or spinal cord. ChaCha on!

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease in which the myelin sheaths are destroyed. What process does this interfe

Q: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease in which the myelin sheaths are destroyed. What process does this interfere with and what would be the consequence?

A: Sarah, I think you need to be doing your own homework. Grab your medsurg book, lecture notes, etc. and study hard. You could always form a study group if you are wanting to bounce ideas and solutions off each other.

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Q: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease in which the myelin sheaths are destroyed. What process does this interfere with and what would be the consequences? What symptoms would a nurse focus on his or her care of a client with multiple sclerosis?

A: Hi Peanut, I have had MS for 20 years and the myelin in my body is not destroyed and will never be. If multiple sclerosis destroyed all the myelin in the body, people would be dieing of this disease every day. The truth is that while MS involves an attack of the immune system on the myelin sheath, it rarely destroys it. MS will also not attack the myelin of any of the nerves that are involved in the functioning of any of major organs including the heart and lungs. Consequently it is not fatal. Medical researchers now know that to some degree the body does repair some of the damage done to the myelin by MS in between atacks. MS can interfere to some degree with just about every function of the body since the attacks on the myelin and resultant temporary or permanant damage interrupt the accurate delivery of messages in between the the brain and the rest of the body. The truth is however that everyone who has MS has a different experience with the disease so no two cases are the same. The symptoms a person gets all depends upon what nerves the immune system decides to attack and to what degree it attacks them. Also, most of us have a form of the disease which is relapsing remitting. In other words it comes and goes. So while a person with MS could be blind in one eye and have difficulty walking and talking, the next month they could very well be fine. As a consequence there is not and never will be any set, standard treatment for patients with MS. The only thing that a caretaker of a person with MS can do is to interveiw the patient and talk to their doctor to see what symptoms the patient is havng at that particular time. The nervous system is involved in cognition, short term memory, and the emotions as well as the physical. So pyhsical problems are only a part of what you need to find out when doing an intervew with someone with MS. In general and ususlly (but not always) multiiple sclerosis causes severe disabilities if a patient has had a progressive form of the disease for decades. There are no less than 50 symptoms of MS including but not limited to visual distortion, blindness, difficulty or inability to walk , talk , swallow, grasp, bend or squat; fatigue, depression, imbalance, headaches, pain, hearing problems, perceptual difficulties, loss of short term memory, inability to problem solve, lowered IQ, extreme mood swngs and hearing problems.