Articles on Medical Diseases and Conditions

Entries Tagged ‘CNS’

Diet and nutrition

There are two broad ways in which diet and nutrition can be considered in relation to MS. The first and less contentious relates to your general health: ideas about what is a good diet for general health do, of course, change from time to time. The second deals with the possible beneficial or harmful effects […]

Approaches to treatment

There are now two basic approaches to treating MS medically. First there are drugs that aim to suppress, minimize or halt the destructive immune response, that is the inflammation and the accompanying symptoms that occur when MS is in an active phase. In this context the overall aim is to move from controlling one or […]

Types of Multiple Sclerosis

There are almost as many different forms of Multiple Sclerosis as there are people with the disease. Each person with MS has a slightly different clinical (and symptom) profile; the precise course that any one person’s Multiple Sclerosis will take is not as predictable with the kind of detail that many people with the condition […]