Pregnant Moms Take Your Ditamin D to Protect Your Baby Against MS

  According to a Danish registry study higher levels of vitamin D in newborns was associated with less risk of developing multiple sclerosis decades later.
Neurology 2016 Nov 30;[e-pub]
  Comparable findings were reported in a Finnish registry measuring the mother's serum vitamin D level.
NEJM JW Neurol May 2016
JAMA Neurol 2016;73:515

Immunologic Profile in MS Patients Altered with High Dose Vitamin D

   Those with low Vitamin D levels have been shown to have have an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis in previous studies as well as an increased number of brain lesions on MRI. NEJM JW Neurol Dec 2015, JAMA Neurol 2015;72:1458
  A newer study revealed reduced percentages of IL17+CD4+T cells and effects memory cells CD4+ in patients that received 10,400 IU of vitamin D3 daily.
Neurology 2015 Dec 30

Epilepsy Drug to Preserve Vision in MS Patients

From researchers out of the National Hospital For Neurology and Neurosurgery : 86 MS patient's with acute optic neuritis were given Dilantin or a placebo. On average, the patients that received Dilantin demonstrated 30% less damage to the nerve fiber layer compared to placebo recipients and the volume of the macula was 34% higher in the Dilantin group.
Stay tuned ...larger studies to follow.