FAST FACT:

ALS and Ice

Bucket
Challenge
What is ALS mean?
What does ALS do to our body?
What are the symptoms of ALS
What causes ALS?
Who gets ALS?
How is ALS treated?
What is the ALS Ice bucket Challenge?
How did the Ice Bucket Challenge
Begin?
How much fund has been Raised?
 WHAT DOES ALS MEAN?

• ALS – Amyotrophic Lateral

Sclerosis.
• A disease that affects nerve
cells in the brain and spinal
cord.
 WHAT DOES ALS DO TO THE
BODY?
• Causes the progressive degeneration of the
motor neurons which control muscle
movements.
• Dead motor neuron make the brain lose its
ability to initiate and control muscle
movement, affecting the muscles of
voluntary muscles which could lead into
paralysis.
WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF
ALS
• 75% experience “limb onset” (difficulty
in arm or leg activity)
• 25% experience “bulbar onset”
(difficulty in speaking or swallowing)
• In later stages, lung and eye functions
may be affected.
 WHAT CAUSES ALS?

• 1993 scientists discover that

mutations in genes in one
factor.
• 90-95% of all ALS cases, the
disease occurs randomly,
with no clear factors or
 WHO GETS ALS

• 60-69 years, but younger or

older people can also
develop the disease.
• About 5-10% of all ALS
cases are inherited.
 HOW IS ALS TREATED?

• In 1995 FDA approved that

riluzole which is believed to
reduce damage to motor neurons.
This drugs prolongs survival for
several months, but does not
repair already-damaged motor
neurons.
 WHAT IS THE ALS ICE BUCKET
CHALLENGE?

• Participants who accept the

challenge will record
themselves pouring a Ice of
bucket on their head.
• Those who will not accept the
challenge will donate 100.
 HOW DID THE ICE BUCKET
CHALLENGE BEGIN?

• The video has began as early

as 2013, with most of them
being done just for fun.
• July 15, 2014 Golfer Chris
Kennedy posted a video.
 HOW MUCH HAS BEEN
RAISED?
• 41.8 million in donations between
July 29 and August 21, 2014.
• This is done by raising awareness
of ALS.