Why could Cpni affect MS sufferers so much?
There may be more than one explanation…
The answer could lie in a person’s genesi.
Amongst our genetic code we all have instructions for T-cells. These are a group of white blood cells, part of the body's immunei system, that defend against infection. Whilst these T cells are necessary for us to fight infection if they run unchecked they can cause damage to the Central Nervous System (CNSi) by damaging the nerve fibres. In MS patients it is possible that the cells that stop some T cells from being over efficient are not working properly.
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Or in the Blood-Brain Barrieri
The brain is an especially sensitive area of the body which is protected by the Blood Brain Barrier (BBBi) basically a very fine meshed sieve. Unlike the kitchen variety it is selective of what can go through. It will only allow what it needs to pass through the BBB but some infectionsi get in under cover of other cells, a bit like a Trojan horse. The idea here is that Cpn has infected the brain and the BBB opens up enough to allow the body’s immune system to come and fight the infection and remove the debris. In the process the very sensitive brain could be damaged by the clean up operation.
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Or it could be a combination of factors, such as a BBB which does not work quite as it should and an immune systems that over-reacts. There are many other possibilities, including infection by viruses or bacteria and many others are unknown.
How Cpn could affect MS patients
Cpn is a common organism (a bacterium) which can affect many parts of the body without causing too many problems if it decides to settle in areas that are not particularly sensitive.
Many people will have sinusitis, or a dry cough, or dry skin, or what feels like an upset tummy and carry on regardless of these small discomforts.
But if the bacteria infect the brain then, over a period of years, the symptoms recognised as MS may surface. Often this first shows up as eye problems, maybe some numbness which goes away after a couple of weeks, but gradually the symptoms can become more severe and end up disabling the sufferer.
One possible reason for this is that Cpn is a slow growing organism and it could be many years before the infection is bad enough to cause the immune system to react to it so severely as to result in disablement.
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www.cpnhelp.org/pdfs/Cp-MSAssoc.pdf