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A demyelinating disease affects your myelin sheath. This is a protective cover that surrounds nerve cells. Damage to your myelin can happen if your immune system mistakes healthy nerve cells for harmful ones. The most common demyelinating disease is multiple sclerosis. Treatment varies based on what type of demyelinating disease affects you.
When the myelin sheath is damaged, nerve impulses slow or even stop. This can cause neurological symptoms such as trouble walking or seeing, or changes in bowl and bladder function.
CIDP chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is an autoimmune condition that affects the myelin sheath around your peripheral nerves. This causes worsening symptoms, like muscle weakness and abnormal sensations, over at least eight weeks.
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (or polyradiculoneuropathy) is considered an autoimmune disorder destroying myelin, the protective covering of the nerves.
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is a neurological disorder -- a condition that targets your body’s nerves. Symptoms aren’t the same for everyone, but you may be...
With CIDP, the immune system’s inflammatory cells mistakenly recognize nerve tissue as foreign, sending cells to attack it. Demyelinating describes the nerve damage. Think of your nerves as copper wires.
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is a slowly developing autoimmune disorder in which the body's immune system attacks the myelin that insulates and protects the body’s nerves.
That’s certainly true for many people with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). CIDP is an autoimmune condition that affects the protective sheath that lines the nerves in the arms and legs.
Overview. Peripheral neuropathy happens when the nerves that are located outside of the brain and spinal cord (peripheral nerves) are damaged. This condition often causes weakness, numbness and pain, usually in the hands and feet. It also can affect other areas and body functions including digestion and urination.
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP; also known as chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy) is an acquired, immune-mediated neuropathy affecting peripheral nerves and nerve roots, typically characterized by a relapsing-remitting or progressive course of symmetric weakness of proximal and distal muscles.