There is no cure for multiple sclerosis (MS) but some medicines, exercises, and physiotherapies can help you to reduce its symptoms of it.
Various treatment options like stem cell therapy are researched and found to slow down the progression of the disease. The severity of symptoms ranges from mild to severe and depends on the stage of MS.
What is multiple sclerosis?
Your nerve cells transfer messages from your brain to the rest of your body to perform functions like walking, running, hearing, and much more.
These nerve cells are protected by a covering called myelin. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disorder in which the protective myelin and nerve cells are damaged.
It further results in your immune system attacking your central nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves.
The damaged nerve cells could not transfer any messages properly and making it hard for your brain to communicate with the rest of your body.
This leads to cause symptoms like muscle weakness, numbness, trouble speaking, chronic pain, and vision loss.
The stem cell treatment for MS can restrict nerve damage to slow down its progress.
What is stem cell therapy?
Stem cells are present in many parts of your body’s organs and tissues like the brain, bone marrow, blood vessels, skin, and much more.
These stem cells can turn into different cells in your body to initiate the repair, replacement, and growth of specific cells. Stem cells replace the dead or damaged cells of your body due to wear and tear, injury, or disease.
Your doctor picks healthy stem cells from any part of your body and put them into the damaged or diseased area. This healthy cell turns into the specific or desired cell to repair and rebuild your damaged body cells.
Medical professionals are using stem cells to treat a number of medical conditions, including cancers, immune system disorders, blood disorders, and metabolic disorders. This refers to stem cell therapy.
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How does stem cell therapy work for MS?
Stem cell therapies are potentially explored to find effective and safe treatment options for MS. It is evident that stem cell therapies can prevent damage to nerve cells.
But, clinical research is being carried out to find whether it can repair the damaged cells due to MS.
A stem cell therapy, known as Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy, is found to regulate the immune system, reduce inflammation, and promote tissue repair in MS patients.
The transplanted stem cell can replace damaged tissue within your central nervous system and repair the damaged myelin sheath. They can prevent the immune system from attacking the nerve cells to limit the damage.
A hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) therapy is found to suppress your immune system and then re-initiate it using your hematopoietic stem cells.
These stem cells are mainly found in your blood cells like white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.
This technique overcomes the dysfunctional immune system causing the MS symptoms and replaces it with a normal functioning immune system.
Stem cell therapy can help MS patients with enhanced energy, flexibility, strength, and mobility, and reduce inflammation.
