Vitamin D has shown to lower the number of Multiple Sclerosis relapses MS patients experience throughout the year. However, a medicine has yet to be formulated that prevents MS relapses from ever happening again. A relapse is caused by MS lesions present on the spinal cord or brain. Lesions are detected by an MRI scan, but not all of them will show up when the scan is performed. Relapses are also known as ‘flares’, ‘attacks’, or ‘exacerbations’.

Besides consuming a high daily dose of vitamin D, specific medicines have been approved for MS patients that have proven to lower the percentage of relapses. The rate of relapse episodes drops significantly with the newer medications approved for by the FDA and one of them is an oral drug, whereas the others are all given through injections.

The brain or spinal cord lesion causing the relapse is formed when nerve cells are …