Can Multiple sclerosis be contagious?
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MS is not contagious.  If you have family members that have MS, you are at higher risk of developing MS, but the increased risk is still very low.  You can not prevent the disease from developing, nor do you suppress your immune system.  They have immuno modulator therapies available to take once you get the diagnosis, but they are not suppressors.
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It Would Depend, In Large Part, On Whether you had Mono (a Herpesvirus, EBV) Before (and May Have Seen it as Something Else or Never Realized you Were Sick).  I Think she was Contagious Well Before she had Signs, and Not Terribly Long After she had Signs.
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No, multiple sclerosis is not associated with heart attacks. However, recent research has shown that medication that lowers cholesterol (statins -- which also prevent heart attack) can also help with MS.
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MS is not strictly a hereditary disease. However, increasing scientific evidence suggests that genetics may play a role in determining a person's susceptibility to MS. Some populations, such as the Roma, Inuit, and Bantus, never get MS. The indigenous peoples of the Americas, the Japanese, and other Asian peoples have very low incidence rates. It is unclear whether this is due mostly to genetic or environmental factors.\n\nIn the population at large, the chance of developing MS is less than a tenth of one percent. However, if one person in a family has MS, that person's first-degree relatives—parents, children, and siblings—have a one to three percent chance of getting the disease.\n\nFor identical twins, the likelihood that the second twin may develop MS if the first twin does is about 30%; for fraternal twins (who do not inherit identical gene pools), the likelihood is closer to that for non-twin siblings, or about 4%. The fact that the rate for identical twins both developing MS is significantly less than 100% suggests that the disease is not entirely genetically controlled. Some (but definitely not all) of this effect may be due to shared exposure to something in the environment, or to the fact that some people with MS lesions remain essentially asymptomatic throughout their lives.\n\nFurther indications that more than one gene is involved in MS susceptibility comes from studies of families in which more than one member has MS. Several research teams found that people with MS inherit certain regions on individual genes more frequently than people without MS. Of particular interest is the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) or major histocompatibility complex region on chromosome 6. HLAs are genetically determined proteins that influence the immune system.\n\nThe HLA patterns of MS patients tend to be different from those of people without the disease. Investigations in northern Europe and America have detected three HLAs that are more prevalent in people with MS than in the general population. Studies of American MS patients have shown that people with MS also tend to exhibit these HLAs in combination-that is, they have more than one of the three HLAs-more frequently than the rest of the population. Furthermore, there is evidence that different combinations of the HLAs may correspond to variations in disease severity and progression.\n\nStudies of families with multiple cases of MS and research comparing genetic regions of humans to those of mice with EAE suggest that another area related to MS susceptibility may be located on chromosome 5. Other regions on chromosomes 2, 3, 7, 11, 17, 19, and X have also been identified as possibly containing genes involved in the development of MS.\n\nThese studies strengthen the theory that MS is the result of a number of factors rather than a single gene or other agent. Development of MS is likely to be influenced by the interactions of a number of genes, each of which (individually) has only a modest effect. Additional studies are needed to specifically pinpoint which genes are involved, determine their function, and learn how each gene's interactions with other genes and with the environment make an individual susceptible to MS.
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There is no association between the HIV, Hep B and MS. There is speculation that a virus causes MS but no virus has been found.\nThe person who wrote the previous answer is correct, but I am sure your doctor considered Progressive Multifocal Leucoencephalopathy (PML) which can be seen in patients with AIDS. PML is another demylinating disease like MS and is caused by a virus but it is not the Hep B or HIV. It is caused by the JC or BK virus. Also you said you had HIV not AIDS so this is not very likely as PML is only seen in those with a damaged immune system.\nAlso some other infections can cause damage to the brain in AIDS patients, as the previous answerer stated, but none would show up an an MRI the way MS would. To be truely diagnostic MS lesions must appear over a period of time, but there are patterns on MRIs that are suggestive of MS and I am sure you doctor or at least the radiologist would know this.
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I would think it is no longer contagious once it becomes dry.Go to your local pharmacy in the natural vitamins and pick up a bottle of L-Lysine tablets.Take one daily during an outbreak. It will dry up quickly. To prevent them again, take 2 a week.Maybe take one on Sat., and another onTues.
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No hiccups are not contagious but it might be possible to control them.  If one can control the hindbrain then it might be possible to contol ones hiccups...similar to people who can cause their eyes to shake rapidly.  \n\nSometimes if you get the hiccups then physcially try to hiccup again you won't hiccup (my friend does that to his daughter by telling her he'll give her a dollar if she would do it again, she usually can't)
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No.  It is very contagious.
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Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic, disabling disease of the central nervous system.  I do not know where you get your facts, but you obviously don't know how to conduct proper research.
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Eczema is not contagious and people can therefore not “catch” eczema.\n \nEczema, like many other skin conditions, can become infected with bacteria or viruses. Once this happens other people can potentially “catch” the infection. Note however, that they will only catch the infection and not the eczema! Eczema itself is not contagious.
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No , don't\nFoot and mouth is contagious\nMaybe the scientists have not found out all that there is to know about this diesase\nWhy take the risk??
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Well, I guess it depends on what kind of illness.  Is it contagious?  Otherwise, most people will be sympathetic to someone who is sick.
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NO!  Laryngitis itself is not contagious but if you got the laryngitis due to a cold, the cold is contagious....as you know. \n\nLaryngitis is an inflammation of the voice box, or larynx, that causes your voice to become raspy or hoarse. It can be short-lived or long-lasting. Most of the time, laryngitis comes on quickly and lasts as long as two weeks.  \n\nLaryngitis is caused by:\nan upper respiratory infection, especially a cold or flu. \nStraining or overusing the voice\nAllergies\nExposure to irritants, such as smoke or chemicals. \nGastroesophageal reflux disease
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The good news:\n\n1. The cold is most contagious for about first three days of your symptoms.  \n\n2. Saliva is not an efficient means of spread of most cold viruses. Symptomatic people with colds have no detectable virus in their saliva in 90 percent of cases and kissing is not likely to transmit the common cold.\n\nThe not so good news.\n\nHand-to-hand direct contact plays an important role in disease transmission, so if you are contagious just touching another person maybe enough to transmit it.  \n\nThe bottom line, if you still have the cold symptoms, you may pass it to your partner just by being with them.  Kissing will make little difference. Hope that helps.
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Yes, it can.  :(\n\nMost people experience their first symptoms of MS between the ages of 20 and 40; the initial symptom of MS is often blurred or double vision, red-green color distortion, or even blindness in one eye.  Most MS patients experience muscle weakness in their extremities and difficulty with coordination and balance.  These symptoms may be severe enough to impair walking or even standing. In the worst cases, MS can produce partial or complete paralysis.  Most people with MS also exhibit paresthesias, transitory abnormal sensory feelings such as numbness, prickling, or "pins and needles" sensations.  Some may also experience pain.  Speech impediments, tremors, and dizziness are other frequent complaints. Occasionally, people with MS have hearing loss. Approximately half of all people with MS experience cognitive impairments such as difficulties with concentration, attention, memory, and poor judgment, but such symptoms are usually mild and are frequently overlooked.  Depression is another common feature of MS.
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It's very contagious, but the only way you would catch it is if they touched their eye, then your hand, then you touched your eye.  Wash your hands right away, and try to remember if you've touched your eyes since your contact with this person.
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In relation to what type of medical disorder or behavior?\n\n Knowledge about the balance between heritable and nonheritable risk in multiple sclerosis (MS) is based on twin studies in high-prevalence areas. In a study that avoided ascertainment limitations and directly compared continental Italy (medium-prevalence) and Sardinia (high-prevalence), we ascertained 216 pairs from 34,549 patients. This gives a twinning rate of 0.62% among MS patients, significantly less than that of the general population.      In continental Italy, probandwise concordance was 14.5% (95% confidence interval, 5.1-23.8) for monozygotic and 4.0% (95% confidence interval, 0.8-7.1) for dizygotic twins. Results in Sardinia resemble those in northern populations but in limited numbers. Monozygotic concordance was 22.2% (95% confidence interval, 0-49.3) probandwise, but no concordant dizygotic pairs were identified.