Friday 23 August 2013

What is Motor neurone disease (MND)?



Motor neurone disease (MND) as it is know in the UK, New Zealand and Europe or ALS,  in the states  is the name given to a group of diseases in which the nerve cells - neurones - controlling the muscles that enable us to move, speak, breathe and swallow undergo degeneration( the protein they need malfunctions) and  then they die. With no nerves to activate them, muscles gradually weaken and waste away, causing increasing loss of mobility in the limbs, and difficulties with speech, swallowing and breathing. The patterns of weakness vary from person to person.”

Think of it like the brain and your muscles a cell phones and they are trying to text each other and the neurons are like cell sites, the cell site stops sending out a signal which then causes one of the phone to stop work and so the text you send doesn’t get to the other phone

It can be passed through families but that is very very very rare! And is also less common in women and those under 50.

It has a life expectancy from time of diagnosis or 2 to 5 years but people can live up to 20+ years, it all depends on where the illness showed up first and how long it takes to progress

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