Sunday, October 4, 2009

Lou Gehrig's Disease



What is Lou Gehrig's Disease?
Lou Gehrig's disease is a disorder that's also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS, amyotrophic means that the muscles have lost their nourishment. When this happens, they become smaller and weaker. Lateral means that the disease affects the sides of the spinal cord, where the nerves that nourish the muscles are located; and sclerosis means that the diseased part of the spinal cord develops hardened or scarred tissue in place of healthy nerves.
ALS is often called Lou Gehrig's disease after Lou Gehrig, a hall-of-fame baseball player for the New York Yankees who was diagnosed with ALS in the 1930s. People in England and Australia call ALS Motor Neurone Disease (MND). The French refer to it as Maladie de Charcot, after the French doctor Jean-Martin Charcot, who first wrote about ALS in 1869.
Symptoms
The most common symptoms of Lou Gehrig's Disease are :
- tripping
-dropping things
-abnormal fatigue of the arms and/or legs
- slurred speech
- muscle cramps and twitches
-involuntary periods of laughing or crying.
Affected Organ Systems
The organ systems affected by Lou Gehrig's Disease are the Nervous system and the Muscular system.

7 comments:

Doug B. said...

This disease affects homeostasis by removing nourishment for muscles causing them to become smaller and weaker. Also affected parts of the spine develop scarred tissue in place of working nerves.

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There is no known cure for ALS. The first drug treatment for the disease is a medicine called riluzole. Riluzole may prolong life, but does not reverse or stop the disease from getting worse.

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