What is multiple sclerosis

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Multiple sclerosis is a disease that adults are more likely to suffer from, especially the white-collar workers in the company are the most likely to suffer from. Let's share the relevant knowledge of multiple sclerosis with you.

What is multiple sclerosis

Firstly, multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by inflammatory demyelinating lesions of the central nervous system. The most frequently involved parts of the disease are periventricular white matter, optic nerve, spinal cord, brain stem and cerebellum. The main clinical features of the disease are scattered multiple foci of white matter in the central nervous system, remission and recurrence in the course of the disease, spatial multiple of symptoms and signs and temporal multiple of the course of the disease.

Then the clinical characteristics of the vast majority of patients in clinical manifestations of spatial and temporal multiple. Spatial multiple refers to the multiple lesions, and temporal multiple refers to the remission recurrence course. A few cases showed single lesion sign in the whole course of the disease. Monophasic course of disease is more common in slow progressive multiple sclerosis with spinal cord sign onset and acute multiple sclerosis with dangerous disease rarely seen in clinic.

Finally, the age and gender of onset are mostly 20-40 years old, and patients under 10 years old and above 50 years old are rare. Among the patients, there are more women, but men account for half of women, and they need to be prevented. Subacute onset is the most common form of onset, while acute and occult onset are only seen in a few cases.

matters needing attention

People with multiple sclerosis should keep a good sleep, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and coarse grains, eat a reasonable light diet, work and rest regularly, avoid staying up late and overwork, and strengthen rehabilitation exercise.