Dr. Dinesh Chouksey – Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease in which our immune system mistakenly attacks our own cells of the brain, optic nerve, spinal cord and it is an autoimmune inflammatory disease.
MS (Multiple Sclerosis) is one of the genetically predisposed disorders and can occur in people after infection with Ebstein bar virus, low vitamin D, smoking and childhood obesity are the factors can tigger the disease.
Optic neuritis is sudden vision loss in one eye is the most common presentation of MS and almost 50% of these patients can develop MS in the Future.
If a person has progressive difficulty in walking, fatigue, poor balance, tingling numbness of the limbs, a neurologist should be consulted for diagnosis and treatment.
