Autoimmune disease

Are Autoimmune Diseases Killing You? The innate/adaptive immune systems are supposed to protect you – what happens when they strike back? Autoimmune diseases: The Immune system is provided by the body to keep the human system healthy, and virus/bacteria free. Autoimmune diseases occur when a T lymphocyte cell escapes the lymphoid and mistakes an organ/system/tissue for a virus, this rogue T cell than instructs B lymphocytes cells to develop antibodies. These special antibodies are known as ‘autoantibodies’

Caring For Pregnant Women with Autoimmune Diseases Having an autoimmune disease while pregnant increases the risk of the pregnancy on the mother and fetus. Ironically, most autoimmune diseases predominantly affect women (Goebel, 2015). To make the problem worse, most of the data available on safe treatments for these diseases during pregnancy comes from animal data (since trials on pregnant women are often considered immoral or too dangerous). These medications, based primarily on animal studies

There are more than a hundred autoimmune diseases. There are approximately 50 million people living with some form of an autoimmune disease in America. Depending on the type, an autoimmune disease can cause many different parts of your body to go under siege. Some of the most common autoimmune diseases are Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Multiple Sclerosis, and Rheumatoid arthritis. The current medical system does not recognize Autoimmune illnesses as diseases of the immune system. Instead, they

Autoimmune disease affects over fifty million Americans. Autoimmune disease develops when your immune system, which defends your body against disease, decides your healthy cells are foreign. As a result your immune system attacks healthy cells. There are as many as 80 types of autoimmune diseases; many of which have similar symptoms. The symptoms, how to diagnose and treatments are very similar for all the different types of auto immune disorders (Roddick). Autoimmune disease often run in families

Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disease in which the over activity of the thyroid gland causes the overproduction of the thyroid hormone. This disease was described by Robert J. Graves a doctor from Ireland and is also known as Basedow’s disease. Even though there are several disorders that may result in hypothyroidism, grave disease is one of the most common type of hypothyroidism that occurs in 1 percent of U. S population (Anderson 2010). Furthermore, Grave disease is a disease that can affect

Abstract—Immune system failure can cause many human autoimmune diseases which make body produce antibodies in the blood which attack human antigens not foreign antigens and it can cause many serious and chronic illnesses. This phenomenon results in an auto-immune response which generate the auto-antibodies (ANAs) during this response. This auto-antibodies (ANAs) may be identified through the indirect immunofluorescence test (IIF). But unfortunately, today the IIF is still a subjective method as well

Autoimmune Hepatitis Autoimmune hepatitis is a disease in which the system in the body that fights off disease (immune system) attacks the liver and causes it to become inflammed. Without treatment this condition gets worse. It can last for years and lead to scarring of the liver (cirrhosis) and liver failure. CAUSES The cause of this condition is not known. RISK FACTORS This condition is more likely to develop in: Females. People between the ages of 15 and 40. SYMPTOMS Symptoms of

or diseases. Nevertheless, these problems are caused by nature or other humans, but now humans recognized another problem that is caused by the human himself, it is called autoimmune diseases when the human himself becomes the enemy. One of the most known autoimmune diseases is lupus that has many characteristics and symptoms that can affect someone's life greatly. Lupus is a chronic, lasts for a long time, inflammatory and autoimmune disease. Lupus is characterized by being autoimmune which

Kawasaki Disease is a rare, life threatening autoimmune heart disease that is rarely taught even in medical school. Kawasaki Disease is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks and destroys healthy blood vessels in the body, specifically targeting the hearts blood vessels and arteries. The immune system instead goes against the body and destroys the body, instead of viruses and dangerous foreign substances. Kawasaki Disease affects only one in 271,440 people in the world, yet it continues

The autoimmune disease epidemic in America is steadily growing at a drastic rate. It is not highly publicized, but it is a serious threat, and the truth is that “more people suffer from this group of chronic illnesses than from cancer or heart disease, yet most people don’t even know what these conditions are” (Blum & Bender 1). This lack of public understanding is causing extreme pain, disability, and even death for thousands of Americans who suffer from autoimmune diseases. So why do we know so