Suresh kumar
My cousin brother was diagonised with ALS in 1993.I was taking care of him.Till now no medicine has been found to be effective for this.We tried many types of treatment for him like Allopathy,Magnetic,Acupuncture,Ayurvedic etc.But nothing worked.Basically this affects the motor cells of the brain which affects the motor functions of the body.Other mental faculties like thinking power,sense of smell,hearing,sight are all intact.ALS is also called Motor Neuron Disease (MND).Only rehabilitative treatment is possible.Little is understood about this disease till now.Variousn theories are availble about the causes.Usually it is found to affect people who are extraordinarly active and intelligent.Some of the famous people affected with MND are Mao,Hawkings etc. Take care to give your father liquid food as far as possible as the throat muscles get weakened first and there will be chances of solid food suffocating his lungs.