Comparing Transverse Myelitis And Optic Disease

Disease is something that everyone has heard about, that some fear, and even fewer endure. There are many kinds of diseases that range from easily curable to deadly and without remedy. Disease affects more than a single person in most cases. It can potentially cause more emotional harm to family and friends than to the victim themselves. This is the reason diseases are so feared and heard about. Disease spreads panic and despair, yet with a recovery they spread joy and hope. Two diseases that are similar and yet so dissimilar are Transverse myelitis and Optic neuritis. Both diseases are neurological and known to be connected to MS (multiple sclerosis). MS is a disease in which the nerves of your brain and spinal cord are inflamed and damaged. Optic neuritis is the inflammation of the optic nerve, which is the nerve that connects what a person to sees to their brain. Transverse myelitis is inflammation that can cause severe injury in …show more content…
Intravenous corticosteroids in high-doses such as one-thousand milligrams per day for however many days the severity warrants. For some patients that the corticosteroids do not affect, plasma exchanges sometimes work as a replacement treatment. Various other medicines such as azathioprine, mycophenolate, mofetil, and rituximab are used in conjunction with corticosteroids for long-term patients. Unfortunately, no treatment is one hundred percent effective in the treatment of either of these disorders. Recovery from Transverse Myelitis and Optic Neuritis is almost as rare as getting the disease in the respective percentages. Transverse Myelitis sees only around thirty-three percent of its victims with good to perfect recovery, excluding reoccurrences. Another third has Neal