Natural Treatment For MS Is A Way To Manage The Condition

By Liliana Mills


A natural treatment for MS could be anything from meditation to limiting the amount of animal protein in the diet to spending more time exercising each day. There are several steps that can be taken to help manage the symptoms of this serious condition. Many are easy and inexpensive to implement.

Encephalomyelitis disseminate or disseminated sclerosis are two other names for Multiple Sclerosis. The autoimmune inflammatory disease effects the myelin sheaths of the brain and spine. The sheaths are damaged and myelin is lost. Scarring occurs. Women are effected more often than men. MS usually is diagnosed when a patient is in early adulthood.

Neurological symptoms are the most common followed by psychiatric ones. Multiple Sclerosis does not follow a common course. One person will likely experience the disease differently than another person does. The two kinds of attacks are relapsing and progressive. The progressive ones compound over time. There may be a complete remission of symptoms in between attacks. As the disease runs its course, permanent neurological damage becomes apparent.

The disease was first recognized in 1868 by a French neurologist named Jean Martin Charcot. It had been described prior to Charcot but it was he who identified the constellation of symptoms and gave the condition a name. From there, study began into what caused the condition well as how to deal with it. Truly effective medicines did not come to market until the 1990s

The cause of MS is still not understood and there is not yet a known cure. Medications currently used as treatment often have bad side effects. Many who suffer from the disease turn to alternative treatments to manage their symptoms and keep the disease at bay. There are several natural treatments for MS. Many of them have to do with dietary modifications. One is to lower the intake of protein to ten percent of one's daily caloric intake. It is also recommended to eliminate animal protein in favor of plant based protein. Eating more fruits and vegetables and choosing organic foods is another habit people adopt to manage their disease.

Dietary supplements such as vitamins can be added to a person's daily routine, Among those suggested are an antioxidant, a daily multivitamin, a coenzyme and a B-50 complex. Other ways to use natural means of treatment are to do light exercise everyday and to fit meditation time into the daily schedule.

Many factors dictate the prognosis for a person with MS including gender, age, and symptoms at onset. Life expectancy is effected with those afflicted having a life expectancy 5 to 10 years shorter than those without the disease. Most lose their mobility prior to death however 90% still have the ability to walk ten years after onset.

Every natural treatment for MS is one part of how an afflicted person deals with their condition. Multiple Sclerosis is highly individualized. Effective treatments will also be highly individualized.




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