Essay On Multiple Sclerosis

The symptoms of multiple sclerosis depend on where the damage occurs. The most common symptoms of multiple sclerosis are fatigue, weakness, numbness, vision problem, spasticity, bowel problem and otherwise
Firstly, fatigue for peoples with multiple sclerosis is different from other fatigue, it occurs when nerve deteriorated in the spinal column. It occurs suddenly and easily. Even after a good night sleeps they tend to feel tired when wake up in the morning and get worse as the day progresses. They also tend to be aggravated by heat and humidity.
Furthermore, mostly first symptom diagnosed with multiple sclerosis is numbness and it is the most common symptom. It can be mild or severe depends on the ability to use the effected body part. In
Optic neuritis occurs when optic nerve inflammation, which results in blurred image, loss of colour vision or blindness in one eye. Nystagmus is uncontrolled of eye movement, either horizontal or vertical. While diplopia is a double vision which cause by imperfectly coordinated a pair of muscle, which control a particular eye movement due to the weakness of the muscle. They usually get a false double image when the image is not properly fused. These vision problems rarely result in total blindness
Bladder dysfunction might occur due to lesion block or delay the transmission of nerve signals to the central nervous system that control the bladder and urinary sphincters. This cause the patient to frequently urinate, incontinence and inability to empty the bladder completely. Moreover, one of the common symptoms of multiple sclerosis is spasticity. Spasticity is a feeling of stiffness and a various muscle spasm. It can be mild like feeling of tightness or severe which cause pain, uncontrollable spasm of extremities. It also causes low back pain and feeling of pain in and around joints. However, it is more common in the