Multiple Sclerosis on the Rise in Children

Multiple Sclerosis, a disease where the immune system attacks the nervous system, affects around 400,000 people in the United States alone. Unfortunately, that number is on the rise for children. It is currently thought that one in five of all MS cases start in childhood. MS suffers are oftentimes hard to diagnose, with symptoms ranging from double vision or blurred vision, headaches and movement issues to speech slurring and other indications.

In response to this growing issue, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society helped fund the CPODD – Center for Pediatric Onset Demyelinating Disease – located in the Children’s Hospital of Alabama. The Center, located in Birmingham, offers a long list of clinical services, from neurological evaluation and diagnosis, MRIs testing and analysis and neuro psychological evaluation and care, to vision care, pediatric urology evaluation and physical and other therapy for comprehensive rehabilitation.

The CPODD is one of only six Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Centers of Excellence in the country. The other five are:

• Pediatric MS Center of the Jacobs Neurological Institute, State University of New York at Buffalo
  
  
  
• Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota
  
  
  
• National Pediatric MS Center at Stony Brook University Hospital, Long Island
  
  
  
• Partners Pediatric MS Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital for Children in Boston
  
  
  
• University of California, San Francisco Regional Pediatric MS Center
  

Hopefully new therapies will arise from these centers and the future of MS will be brighter than ever, especially for the children.









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