Treating Multiple Sclerosis


by Groshan Fabiola - Date: 2007-03-29 - Word Count: 401 Share This!

Modern technology and skillful doctors have come up with several treatments to help patients suffering from multiple sclerosis. In order to properly treat the disorder a good diagnosis must be put, and that little fact can prove to be a bit tricky some times. Magnetic resonance imaging has helped doctors and scientists both in giving the best diagnosis and also in understanding how the disease starts and progresses through the human body. Frequent relapses may cause serious problems on the patient; this way new lesions appear after each episode further increasing the focal brake down of the blood-brain barrier. Also magnetic resonance helps doctors allot with prognosis and therapy.

Clinical trials have also improved treatment in multiple sclerosis people. Because of the strange and variable way that the disorder progresses clinical trials have to involve a lot of people and must span out a long amount of time. Still they help doctors a lot in understanding how the disease works and how best to fight it.

Modern science has helped doctors a lot in both giving a proper diagnose and in better treating the disease. With the disease being so complicated and demanding different treatments are given at the beginning of the disorder than after episodes. Special care should always be given to patients in order for them to best fight the symptoms of the disease. It has been seen that immediately after a relapse the patients experience a real spontaneous recovery. Corticosteroids have been found to be the most effective against this disorder, and they do so by shortening the duration of the relapse and seriously accelerate the recovery effect. Still the usage of this kind of steroid is believed to have only a short lived impact on the disease, the long term course still remaining unaffected.

The goal in all treatments applied to patients suffering from multiple sclerosis is that of reducing the severity and frequency of the relapses. In the past one of the most used ways to fight the disease was by using immunosuppressive drugs but that was found to be low in efficacy and most of all considerably toxic. Newer drugs are now slowly and easily modulating the action of immune cells not totally as it was done before.

Newer and better treatments are being developed as we speak, and all this is done for the sick and diseased people that are suffering from multiple sclerosis.

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