Multiple sclerosis and MS (multiple sclerosis) remissions are something everyone’s heard of and many people have encountered either personally or by knowing someone with the problem. But how many people really understand the disease, how it works, and how to put it into remission? Not as many as should, would be the short answer.

So let’s look at how this disease works, and what happens when it goes into remission. Let’s understand how to fight this disease until it’s finally obliterated.

Multiple sclerosis is a nerve disease at its core. To understand what it does, let’s think about the nervous system in the human body. At its heart, it’s our electrical system and our computer network all in one. And one thing it shares in common with manmade wiring is that it has insulation. Instead of plastics, though, we have myelin, a sheath of fatty tissue that enshrouds the nerve …

Most people with MS live with the Relapsing-Remitting form of the disease.  About 8% of people with MS are first diagnosed with RRMS. So as the name implies, MS remissions are experienced by those same 85% of the MS patients. When the patient is not suffering a relapse, or attack, the person is in the remitting stage, or experiencing one of their Multiple Sclerosis Remissions.

The attack, otherwise known as exacerbation, is actually an inflammatory attack on the myelin of the nerve fibers in the Central Nervous system. While in the attack phase, activated immune cells cause damage to isolated and small areas, resulting in painful and sometimes debilitating inflammation. There are many ways to reduce the impact of this inflammation from pharmaceutical to natural herbal remedies and treatments.  The MS remissions are characterized by either complete or partial recovery that follows a relapse.

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