New help for MS patients

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Botox: New help for MS patients | abc30.com

 http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/health/health_watch&id=8666730

by Margot Kim

 

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- 

 While Audrey Mirels does use a wheelchair, at times it's not her walking that bothered her it was another side effect of MS that was holding her hostage. 

"I was making the bathroom my world. I was going every two minutes," Mirels, an MS patient, told Action News. 

Thousands of MS patients suffer from incontinence and overactive bladder. The first line of defense is oral medication but if that doesn't work, the FDA has recently approved Botox.

"The Botox basically relaxes the spastic muscles nature," Farzeen Firoozi, M.D., a urologist at the Arthur Smith Institute for Urology in New Hyde Park, NY, told Action News.

Patients receive 10 to 30 injections into the bladder wall. The Botox starts working within a week and lasts for up to nine months. 
  


For more information, contact:
Kristen M. Longo
Public Relations Specialist
LIJ Health System
(516) 465 -2607
klongo@NSHS.edu