| Multiple sclerosis is a rather unknown disease, | | | | sclerosis. |
| because it does not affect many people. | | | | Multiple sclerosis presents a mistery that people |
| However, multiple sclerosis is a very hard medical | | | | have not been able to solve yet. What causes |
| condition. The reason is because when you suffer | | | | multiple sclerosis is still unknown. One of the |
| from multiple sclerosis, the patches of myelin or | | | | explanation that doctors have given us is that |
| the fibres of your nerves are damaged. Multiple | | | | multiple sclerosis may be caused by a virus. |
| sclerosis affects the nerves of your eyes, spinal | | | | Another theory is that an antigen, of unknown |
| cord or brain. | | | | origin is the cause of multiple sclerosis. What this |
| This disease, multiple sclerosis actually refers to | | | | antigen or virus do is to make your body attack |
| the number of sclerosis areas that are a result of | | | | its own tissues. Then, the auto immune system |
| the demyelination of your nerves. Multiple sclerosis | | | | starts to fight against its own cells, causing |
| affects young adults, with ages between twenty | | | | inflammation and the distruction of the myelin |
| up to fourty years old. Multiple sclerosis affects | | | | patch and nerve fibres. This is what happens |
| more women then men. The number of women | | | | when you have multiple sclerosis. Genetics is |
| affected by multiple sclerosis is actually twice of | | | | thought to be another probable cause for multiple |
| the number of men that suffer from multiple | | | | sclerosis. If someone in your family has had |
| sclerosis. In multiple sclerosis, there are periods of | | | | multiple sclerosis, you are more at risk of |
| flare- ups and periods of remission. Actually the | | | | developing multiple sclerosis then others. Another |
| first type of multiple sclerosis is called relapsing- | | | | cause for the development of multiple sclerosis is |
| remitting. However, this is only the beginning of | | | | thought to be the environment. It appears that |
| multiple sclerosis. In time, this condition gets even | | | | the first 16 years of your life are very important |
| worse. The second stage of multiple sclerosis is | | | | for multiple sclerosis. If you have lived in a |
| second progressive. The third type of multiple | | | | temperate climate, chances are that you will |
| sclerosis is first progressive. For the first two | | | | develop multiple sclerosis. On the other hand, if |
| multiple sclerosis types, there are drugs that can | | | | you have lived in a tropical climate, that lowers |
| change the course of the disease, multiple | | | | the risk of having multiple sclerosis. |