According to a new study, the progression of multiple sclerosis slows down in women who deliver a baby. This is a condition in which there is long-term inflammation of the central nervous system.

It took 18 years of study conducted by Belgian and Dutch researchers involving 330 women with MS to reach this conclusion.

It was observed that women who have children had a lower chance of developing this severe disability.

This condition also hampers the transfer of messages from the nervous system to the rest of the body.

All women under observation visited a specialist center. The first symptoms of the disease were observed when they were between the age 22 and 38.

Out of these total women, 170 had given birth before their symptoms developed and a quarter of the women were childless.

A unique measuring technique was being followed by the researchers called the Kurtzke Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) to monitor the progression of the disease.

Around 55 percent women were categorized as EDSS six after living for 18 years with MS.