Diseases in which inflammatory demyelination is present include MS, Devic’s disease, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, optic neuritis, and chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency. These are by no means all of the diseases known about where nerve cells within the body are attacked by the immune system.

When nerve cells are damaged by the white blood cells in the body, such as with Multiple Sclerosis, the individual nerves can no longer transmit electrical impulses effectively. These cells could be in the brain, spinal cord, or eyes. In MS, the central nervous system is affected by the demyelination of nerve cells, but in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, the peripheral nervous system is conflicted. Whether the CNS or the PNS is afflicted, the symptoms tend to be very similar. Patients will generally experience numbness and tingling, weakness in limbs, fatigue, pain, partial or total paralysis, and sometimes loss of muscle control.

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy …