You can protect her with Vitamin D....Please read the following article.
http://www.webmd.com/multiple-sclero...may-prevent-ms

also, if you google 'Vit D to prevent MS'....you will get a lot of info.

Nope, never had it. Go figure.

But I do get strep throat twice a year and at least one sinus infection per season change.

I don't know if I ever had EBV, but Strep and Mono were probably my triggers and my DD had Strep and shingles at a young age, probably as precursers to her MS.

All of these illnesses lead you right back to the Herpes Virus(6, I believe)

I was tested for it several times, and always rang up negative. I chose the option that best fit "maybe but never diagnosed"

When I was in my late 20's I was dx'd with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then In my early 30's dx'd with EBS. so I have had sx for a long time but wasn't dx'd with MS until my mid 40's. Go figure

I tested positive for EBV and got a severe case of mono that lasted for almost a year when I was 38 years old. 7 months after that I started having MS symptoms. I had never had any strange MS type symptoms before the mono. I am pretty much convinced that the EBV tripped the switch!

Never had EBV and one of the few that have normal Vitamin D levels. Outdoorsy sort of person and drank a ton of milk as a kid - bones are very strong and it took 6 years for my braces to accomplish the job of straightening my teeth because of it. I have a couple of permenant retainers to keep it that way too. It took downing a motorcycle to get a hairline fracture on a bone, and was the first time I ever had something break. Considering how many trees and stuff I fell out of as a kid, major surprise.

I have other possible risk factors that may have led to an MS trigger, but who knows with this thing? I chalk it up to being the lotto winner of the genetics in my family.

At 19 (guess that makes me a teenager still!) I got hit very hard by mono, which lasted about 2 weeks and was the worst illness/pain I've lived through. Literally, every part of me was in pain and I slept for 2 weeks solid.

I have one of the most definite cases of MS that my doctors had ever seen, but never had EBV. Years ago I was tested for it more than once when I might have been exposed to it in college, but I never tested positive.

P.S. But there's no vote for that.

Hi Susan!

I didn't realize that you're on this board until I saw this post of yours. Nice to "see" you again!