Julia's Dilemm Week Two Team One

This can wreak havoc on a person’s emotional state, which Mairs comments, “I am immobilized by acute attacks of depression, which may or may not be physiologically related to MS but are certainly its logical concomitant” (Mairs 67). In addition to the unpredictable physical losses that one can sustain from MS - including vision, coordination, and bladder control - one can also lose their will to live a normal life. Mairs discusses the lives of two women who share the same disease, one of which, “...stays at home and insists that her husband, a small quiet man, a retired civil servant, stay there with her except for a quick weekly foray to the supermarket” (71). The other woman has an active life and tries to participate in as many activities as she would without the disease. Mairs aspires to live like the second woman as her life progresses, but the first woman has obviously lost her mental battle with the disease. Since there is no known cure for MS, the only thing that one who is diagnosed can do is accept that their life will always be changing and it will never be easy. Towards the beginning of her disease, she thought about MS constantly and wondered when the time would come that she would no longer be physically capable of killing herself. Once she learned that she would never finish adjusting, she was able to come to an uneasy peace with her condition. Besides the

When one has MS, many complications can occur. MS can lead to depression, and other mental changes such as forgetfulness or moodiness (Mayo Clinic Staff). It also can lead to epilepsy and paralysis. The loss of function and sensory may occur in the limbs. It also can prompt muscle stiffness or muscle spasms (Mayo Clinic Staff). Although there are many complications, the majority of the symptoms and complications of MS are not fatal. MS does not affect life expectancy, as much as the quality of one’s life (Madell,

She tells her husband that she thinks “‘[they’d] better get to California because [she doesn’t know] whether [she’ll] ever make it again.’ ” Using an anecdote, she proves her point that once one suffers from MS, there is no way to “prevent or predict the damage”. She makes readers feel pity towards her as she uses a remorseful tone to convey her emotion towards the un predictableness of the disease. She then told the story of a friend who also had MS and explains how he questioned God about why he has to be cursed with this horrid disease. She responds to him by saying, “Why not?”

One day seven years ago, Kimberly Macalaster-Klapprodt, woke up to find that the upper left part of her face was numb. “I thought, ‘This is weird’ and went on with my day. But when she developed dizziness and a crippling headache the next day, she stopped joking and went to an urgent care facility. That’s when the saga of Macalaster-Klapprodt’s multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis began. It was exhausting experience that many patients who are eventually diagnosed with MS can relate to. Although there's no cure for Multiple Sclerosis, the sooner a patient receives an MS diagnosis, the sooner he or she can be treated with medications that help manage the disease, especially in the initial stages of Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord, particularly the central nervous system (CNS). In MS the immune system attacks the myelin, which is the protective sheath that covers the nerve fibers and causes communication between your brain and the rest of your body. Eventually, the disease can cause the nerves to deteriorate or even lead to permanent damage. They deteriorate in variable degrees and produce significant disability within 20-25 years in more than 30% of patients, (Luzzio, 2016). The majority of people diagnosed with MS are adults between the ages of 20 and 45; twice as many women are affected compared to men. However, MS can present itself in childhood or late middle age, but is uncommon. According to Goldenberg (2012), there is no known cause for this debilitating disease, but it appears to involve a combination of genetic susceptibility and a nongenetic trigger, such as a virus, metabolism, or environmental factors

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common disease that causes disruption to the electrical functions of the immune system resulting in cognitive and motor functions to become destroyed. 1 Multiple sclerosis affects 350,000 people in the United States, however; 2.3 million people globally are known to have multiple sclerosis. 2 This disease has throughout the years been on the rise all over the world. This increase could be due to people moving from one region to another. 2 Women tend to be at greater risk of having multiple sclerosis than men. Women typically develop symptoms at the ages of 20 and 40 years while men are known to develop symptoms at a later age. 2 Caucasian women are more susceptible to developing multiple sclerosis while African Americans have a lower chance of getting this disease. 1 Considering that MS is a disease that affects the nervous system, there is no concise explanation as to what causes this disease. Tobacco products have been linked to causing MS as well as some viruses and bacteria. 2 As viruses attack the brain and the spinal cord, the main compartments of our nervous system, this triggers an effect that causes extreme damage to the axons, specifically their mylenated areas.1 Multiple sclerosis triggers pain to the central nervous system, which destroys and prohibits proper functions. This disease is considered as being irreversible because of the damage done to the axons. 2 As damage to the axons is seen, lesions start to develop in the brain and

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease that affects roughly 400,000 people in the United States (Hunter, 2016) but isn’t very well understood on a cellular level quite yet. There is somewhat of a stigma surrounding the disease as well, as if it is a ticket to life in a wheelchair or an early grave. On the contrary, symptoms and progression vary greatly among individuals and even at different stages for each patient. This paper aims to provide a brief overview of MS, what about it is currently understood, and methods of treatment.

Multiple sclerosis, otherwise known as the abbreviated term MS, is a disease in which the immune system eats away at the covering of nerves. This disease is a chronic, typically progressive disease involving damage to the covering of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that can block or interrupt nerve signals causing fatigue, numbness, movement problems, bladder of bowel dysfunction, and vision problems. While there is no cure for MS, there are multiple treatments to help with the pain of this disease. Because these symptoms can come and go, the treatments can range from something as simple as medications to reduce fatigue and muscle relaxers to something a little more complex such as physical therapy and plasma exchange. There are many

Halper, J., Advanced Concepts in Multiple Sclerosis Nursing Care. second edition ed.; June Halper, M., ANP, FAAN Editor, Ed. Demos Medical Canada, 2007.

Introduction: Multiple sclerosis is a CNS autoimmune disease configured by demyelination, inflammation, and degeneration of axons. This disease inflict great harms to patients. The most common problem is inability to control musculoskeletal system and decrease in mobility. These consequences could vary from patients to patients. About 10-15% of all MS patients develop primary progressive MS (PPMS). Despite the most common appearance of MS, which is progressive-relapsing MS (PRMS), PPMS affects older adults. Its process has no recovery periods, and gender distribution measurements indicate no differences. Etiology of MS is still unclear but it is believed both environmental and hereditary factors are involved. MS susceptibility in population

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common neurological disorders constantly leading to perpetual disability in young adults. Accounting for more than 40,000 affected individuals in Egypt alone (Tallawy et al., 2016), and 2.5 million patients worldwide.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common diseases of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). (3)

Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that results in axonal loss. This nervous system degradation unveils as a wide range of symptoms including extreme fatigue, heat sensitivity, weakness, and contracture, spasticity which can later show as problems with vison, walking, bladder, bowel, and speech. Because the central nervous system encompasses the communication of the entire body, its destruction has a widespread effect on the body, making it an extremely painful disease. MS affects approximately 400,000 people in the United States, and 1,000,000 people between 16 and 65 years of age worldwide (Salem, 2013) . With a large sector of the population being effected for a large segment of their life, it is necessary that we develop a therapy program that can keep MS patients comfortable and with a good quality of life until the disease relapses their abilities extensively.

​The purpose of this referenced library paper on multiple sclerosis (MS) is to access and make use of current scientific information to develop and support a plan of nursing care. With this material, multiple sclerosis will be discussed using its pathophysiology and etiology, risk factors, and signs and symptoms. The signs and symptoms that result from the pathophysiology will also be discussed. Multiple sclerosis can be diagnosed based on laboratory tests and other diagnostic studies. Treatments are based on signs and symptoms and disease progression. Treatments are showing a great potential for slowing down the progression of the disease. Lastly, this paper will identify three most important nursing diagnoses based on the acute stage of this disease. Each nursing diagnosis will be interrelated with a rationale to support a plan of nursing care for this precise disease condition.

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