Myasthenia Gravis: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
MYASTHENIA GRAVIS Myasthenia Gravis is a painful and long-term disorder of the nervous system affecting muscles. In this there is a periodical fatiguability of the muscles. The voluntary muscles get tired with abnormally quick speed. The muscles associated with the skeletal system like eyes, mouth, tongue, limbs are affected in this disease. The defect is found in the transmission of the impulses from the rerves to the muscles though the nerves and the muscles themselves are found to be absolutely faultless. This disease characteristically starts before the age of 40 years in females and above the age of 40 years in males, and it is less common among children. This disease is neither contagious nor hereditary. From a doctor’s point of view this disease is divided into 4 stages and one of the primary symptoms of this disease is weakness of the eye muscles. In some patients this disease is limited to the eyes only, but in majority of cases after some time other muscles which contro...