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Friday, February 2, 2018

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

What is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis?
ALS is a severe disease of the neurons that causes weakness of the muscles and general disability. ALS is degenerative, and affects your brain as well as your spinal cord. And because the nerves are seriously impaired, you cannot move the muscles you need to move in order to eat, speak, move, or even breathe, it often results in death. Lou Gehrig was in 1939 diagnosed with ALS. Lou Gehrig’s disease is another name for ALS.

What Are the causes of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ALS?
ALS is a familial disease; it’s also a sporadic disease, meaning that the cause is not known specifically.
However, some scientists suggest that these factors are seriously linked to ALs and might strongly contribute to it.
There’s damage to free radicals, there’s an immune reaction targeting motor neurons in your system, your chemical messenger glutamate has developed imbalances, your verve cells have developed amyloids, there’s a gene mutation, chaotic immune responses, and general mishandling of proteins.

What Are the symptoms of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ALS?
Sporadic and familial types of ALS are linked with losing your motor neurons progressively. The part of your nervous system affected is what usually determines the symptoms of ALS you feel.
The bottom half of your brainstem, the medulla, regulates the autonomic capacities of the body, such as breathing, heartbeat, and blood pressure. When the medulla damages, your voice becomes hoarse, your speech becomes slurred, you have difficulty swallowing, you develop tongue atrophy, you have difficulty breathing, your emotional reactions are excessive, while your saliva becomes excess.
Your corticospinal tract is composed of nerve fibers. It’s this part of the brain that sends signal to the spinal cord. When the corticospinal track is damaged by ALS it results in limb weakness. Moreover, the front part of the spinal cord called the anterior horn can degenerate, causing flaccid muscles, twitching, and muscles wasting. Weakness of the diaphragm and other muscles of the respiratory system will cause problems of breathing.

Early symptoms include weakness, difficulty in performing routine tasks like morning chores, climbing stairs, rising from a seat, weakness of arms and hands, legs and feet, difficulty  swallowing, stretching, speaking, etc. These symptoms are usually localized in specific regions of the body, meaning, they not symmetrical. However, as the disease develops, the symptoms are gradually felt in the other sides of the body. As the disease progresses, the symptoms generally spread to both sides of the body. General body weakness results, and so does muscle wasting, leading to weight loss. All this, in any case, does not affect the function of your bowel, nor does it affect your urinary tract, or your senses.

How Is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ALS diagnosed?
It’s the neurologist that diagnoses ALS. And no particular tests are usually performed for the diagnosis of this disease. To establish a diagnosis takes weeks or months. Your doctor usually begins to inspect you closely to determine whether you have progressive neuromuscular degeneration leading to ALS. Your doctor will look out for muscle cramps, muscle weakness, 
muscle twitching, wasting, contractures, etc. The fact that you have these symptoms does not conclude that you have ALS. The full and conclusive diagnosis of ALS requires that other possible disorders or conditions be excluded. The diagnostic tests to do this exclusion include
EMG: This test tries to assess your muscles electric activity.
Nerve Conduction Studies: to assess the status of your nerve function
MRI: This, to identify your particular nervous area that’s affected.
Blood and Urine Test will examine your nutrition and general health.
Genetic tests: This test, to ascertain if you have a family history of ALS.
Muscle biopsy

What are the complications of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ALS?
Dehydration, dementia, choking, bed sores, malnutrition, pneumonia, and respiratory failure are some of the complications attending ALS

What are the risk factors of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS
The beginning of the symptoms of ALS is normally between the ages of 50 and 60, even though it’s possible for symptoms to be noticed much earlier.
Other risk factors include heredity, cigarette smoking, and exposure to lead.

How is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ALS Treated?
The advancement of ALS leads to respiratory difficulties, and difficulty in digesting food. The skin and is subcutaneous layers become affected. The muscles and many body parts degenerate, and tend to need intense care and proper treatment.  It’s as a result of this that a team of different specialists is needed to treat or manage an ALS patient: These are nutritionists, neurologists, respiratory therapist, physiatrists, speech therapists, mental health professionals, psychologists, gastroenterologists, social workers, occupational therapists, spiritual healers, etc.
Family members must be available to help in making decisions for an ALS patient.

Medications
Riluzole is the only drug currently approved and dispensable for the treatment of ALS. Even though it cannot eliminate symptoms in their entirety, it can at least extend life for a few months. Other medications can also be used to ameliorate the symptoms of ALS. To guard against plasticity and cramping, baclofen, diazepam, and quinine bisulphate are highly recommended; for anti-inflammation, nonsteroidal; Gabapentin, for anti convulsion; antidepression, tricyclic; and for management of pain, morphine.

For emotional stability, Neurodex, that merges B1, B6, and B12 vitamins, are recommended
The hereditary subtype of ALS is still being investigated for treatment with these drugs: coenzyme Q10, minocycline, COX-2 inhibitors, creatine. However, their effectiveness has not yet been established, neither has stem cell therapy.

Homeopathic Treatment of ALS
Homeopathic treatment has proven to be effective for preventing and repairing damaged muscular and neurological cells. Homeopathy caters to the treatment of the individual patient as a whole human being. Its treatment is constitutive. This means that homeopathy concentrates on the person in relation with their pathological condition, activating the body’s energy flow, building up the person’s immunity and immune responses, as well as the body functions. It takes care of the disorder from the root and naturally cures the ailment. A few of the homeopathic medicines for the treatment of ALS are, but not limited to Lathyrus S, Plumbum, Cuprum M, Zincum, Angustura, Curare, and Hyper.

Conventional and Allopathic Treatment of ALS
The treatment of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis here is intended to provide relief from symptoms for the patient. Such medications that will provide for the patient relief from fatigue, depression, pain, muscle cramps, and constipation are often administered.

Other Treatment of ALS
Your sense of wellbeing can in addition be restored by regular exercises.
Adaptive methods to make your speech clearer and other methods of communication can be explored and taught by your speech therapist.


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