By: arthur linder

arthur linder — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:53:23 +0000

Hi: I have been looking to express my blogs about MS for a long time.I was an MS caregiver for 35 years (my wife) and a member of the Board of directors of the MS in Toronto Canada.
I a also a founder of MS self help groups.
I was also written about my layman’s research in Canada”s largest English newspaper .The Toronto Star.
May I start:
There is NO such thing as Multiple Sclerosis as a disease.
Mutiple Sclerosis is a misleading label for many demyelating conditions.
These demyelenating conditions are caused by 1 Viruses,2 Bacterias, (possible fungals involvement) 3 Toxins eg.(arsenic poisoning etc.)
4 autoimmune causes.
In a research paper published in the Annals of neurology
June 2000,the lead author Dr. Hans Lassman of the university
of Vienna, Austria,receiver of the 2005 Charcot award for excellence in MS research, reported about 4 different groups of lesions found in so called MS patients.Lesions in group A were different from the lesions in group B and C and D.
The lesions on the myelin in each group were similar but different from the other group.
The conclusions were as I mentioned above.
Should we first diagnose and analise the type of demyelanisation in each individual MS patient before we proceed with treatments?
It has been theorised that a leukemia drug shows promise in some MS patients.Should we first determine what type of MS this patient suffers befor we start treatments? If it fails to help in say 75% of patients withe LABEL MS but it helps i 25% of patients.Would it not be fair to determine the type
of MS :viral,baterial,toxic or “autoimmune” the patient suffers ? sinncerely
Art Linder
with treatments?

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