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    Autoimmune Disorders and Vaccines

    Autoimmune Disorders and Vaccines

    Autoimmune illnesses are conditions occurring whenever the immune system destroys healthy body tissues by attacking it. There are over 80 dissimilar kinds of autoimmune disorders.

    Causes of Autoimmune Disorders

    The immune system has an army of white blood cells that helps in protecting the body from antigens. These are harmful materials such as bacteria, toxins, viruses, cancer cells, foreign tissues and foreign blood – mostly from other people or dissimilar species. Our immune system produces the antibodies that destroy these substances.

    But for patients who have autoimmune disorders, their system has a difficult time telling the difference between healthy and infected body tissue. This outcomes in the immune system reacting in such a technique that it also destroys the common body tissue.

    The response is defined as a hypersensitivity reaction that is somehow like how the body reacts whenever it's allergic to something. The immune system ultimately reacts to the foreign substance, as well as the materials that it would usually ignore. Whenever allergies are apparent, the immune system reacts to the foreign substance that is usually harmless. But once the body has an autoimmune disorder, the system reacts to the common body materials as well.

    One may ask what causes the immune system to have a difficult time differentiating the healthy antigens and body tissues? The answer to this question is unknown. In theory, the microorganisms trigger some of these autoimmune system changes, specifically in persons who have these.

    Autoimmune Disorder Results

    Autoimmune Disorder may result in abnormal growth of the individual’s organ, destruction of body tissues and modifications in the function of the organs.

    To be specific, autoimmune illnesses affect the following:

    1. Red blood cells
    2. Blood vessels
    3. Endocrine glands like pancreas or thyroid
    4. Connective tissues
    5. Joints
    6. Muscles
    7. Skin

    An individual has more than one autoimmune disorder at a given point of time. The following are the the bulk common autoimmune disorders.
    1. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
    2. Addison’s disease
    3. Rheumatoid arthritis
    4. Dermatomyositis
    5. Lupus erythematosus
    6. Myasthenia gravis
    7. Grave’s disease
    8. Celiac disease
    9. Reactive arthritis
    10. Multiple sclerosis
    11. Sjogren syndrome
    12. Systemic lupus erythematosus
    13. Type I diabetes
    14. Pernicious anemia

    Symptoms of Autoimmune Diseases

    There are no exact symptoms because these vary from one autoimmune disease to another. It depends on what kind of disease it's specifically. However, there are average threads such as the following:

    1. Fatigue
    2. Low-grade fever
    3. General sick feeling
    4. Dizziness

    Health care providers often perform physical and normal exams to patients who express signs of autoimmune diseases. The following tests they conduct are:

    1. CRP or the C-reactive protein
    2. ESR or Erythrocyte sedimentation rate

    Treating Autoimmune Diseases

    The goal of treating any autoimmune disease is to alleviate the symptoms and to control the way as it maintains the capability of the body to fight off diseases. The treatments depend on the kind of autoimmune disease, as well as the symptoms.

    There are patients who need supplements so that they can replenish the vitamin or the hormone that the body lacks. The examples of these supplements are vitamins, insulin injections or thyroid.

    If the autoimmune disorder of the patient affects his blood, then the person is needed to receive blood transfusions. The measures that are conducted in order to aid the movement of the treatment of autoimmune illnesses expand to the diseases that influence the joints, muscles and bones.

    Doctors and health experts usually prescribe medicines in order to alleviate and control the response of the immune system. These medicines include immunosuppresant drugs and corticosteroids like azathioprine and cyclophosphamide.

    What to Expect

    The outcome really depends on the type of autoimmune disease. Most of these are incessant and can be controlled once treated. The symptoms of these diseases come and go. Sudden and severe developments of these symptoms are mere flare-ups.

    The complications depend on the autoimmune disease. The side effects of the medication are used in order to curb immune system if ever it becomes severe.

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