NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SHORT NOTES MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS IT IS A CHRONIC, PROGRESSIVE, NON-CONTAGIOUS, DEGENERATIVE DISEASE OF THE CNS CHARACTERIZED BY DEMYELINATION OF THE NEURONS.DESTRUCTION OF MYELIN SHEATH OF NEURONS (MYELIN SHEATH IS ESSENTIAL FOR NORMAL CONDUCTION OF NERVE IMPULSES)USUALLY OCCUR BETWEEN AGES OF 20 AND 40 YEARS CAUSES AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE (FORMATION OF ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX) VIRAL INFECTION GENETIC FACTOR PRECIPITATING FACTOR PREGNANCY, FATIGUE, STRESS, INFECTION AND TRAUMA SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS PARESTHESIA, FATIGUE, WEAKNESS, ATAXIA, VERTIGO, TREMORS, SPASTICITY OF LOWER LIMBS, BLURRED VISION, DIPLOPIA, TRANSIENT BLINDNESS, NYSTAGMUS, DYSPHASIA, DECREASED PERCEPTION TO PAIN, TEMPERATURE, AND TOUCH BLADDER AND BOWEL DISTURBANCES, DYSPHAGIA, POSITIVE BABINSKI REFLEX, HEMIPLEGIA, TETRAPLEGIA, PARAPLEGIA, DIPLEGIA, MONOPLEGIA, MEMORY CHANGES DIAGNOSIS MRI, EEG, CT SCAN INCREASE GAMMA GLOBULIN LEVEL IN CSF TREATMENT ADMINISTER CORTICOSTEROIDS OR IMMUNOSUPPRESSANT PLACE AN EYE PATCH ON THE EYE FOR DIPLOPIA INITIATE PHYSICAL AND SPEECH THERAPY INCREASE FLUID INTAKE AND EAT A BALANCED DIET, INCLUDING LOW-FAT DIET, HIGH FIBER FOODS, AND HIGH IN POTASSIUM. MONOPLEGIA - PARALYSIS OF A SINGLE LIMB HEMIPLEGIA - PARALYSIS OF ONE SIDE OF BODY TETRAPLEGIA - PARALYSIS OF ALL FOUR LIMBS PARAPLEGIA - PARALYSIS OF BOTH LOWER LIMBS DYSPHAGIA - DIFFICULTY IN SWALLOWING

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