AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE(WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW)

 An autoimmune disease is a condition in which your immune system mistakenly attacks your body.The immune system normally guards against germs like bacteria and viruses. When it senses these foreign invaders, it sends out an army of fighter cells to attack them.Normally, the immune system can tell the difference between foreign cells and your own cells.


In an autoimmune disease, the immune system mistakes part of your body, like your joints or skin, as foreign. It releases proteins called autoantibodies that attack healthy cells.

Some autoimmune diseases target only one organ. Type 1 diabetes damages the pancreas. Other diseases, like systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), affect the whole body.

Normally, the immune system can tell the difference between foreign cells and your own cells.

Doctors don’t know exactly what causes the immune-system misfire. Yet some people are more likely to get an autoimmune disease than others. Women are more susceptible to auto immune diseases than men. The reason for this is yet to be discovered by researchers.There are more than 80 different autoimmune disease the top 10 most common autoimmune diseases include:

  1. Rheumatoid arthritis

  2. Hashimoto’s autoimmune thyroiditis

  3. Celiac disease

  4. Graves’ disease

  5. Diabetes mellitus, type 1

  6. Vitiligo

  7. Rheumatic fever

  8. Pernicious anemia/atrophic gastritis

  9. Alopecia areata

  10. Immune thrombocytopenic.

  11. The early symptoms of many autoimmune diseases are very similar, such as:

  • fatigue

  • achy muscles

  • swelling and redness

  • low-grade fever

  • trouble concentrating

  • numbness and tingling in the hands and feet

  • hair loss

  • skin rashes

Individual diseases can also have their own unique symptoms. For example, type 1 diabetes causes extreme thirst, weight loss, and fatigue. IBD causes belly pain, bloating, and diarrhea.Symptoms like fatigue, muscle aches, swelling, and redness could be signs of an autoimmune disease. Symptoms might come and go over time.See a doctor if you have symptoms of an autoimmune disease. You might need to visit a specialist, depending on the type of disease you have.

I hope by now you know a bit about autoimmune and be more than prepared to visit your doctor if you see any symptoms related to what you read above. Always visit this blog for more information about your health. Feel free to share,thanks for reading.

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