Saturday, June 23, 2012
Bonnie
"Autoimmune diseases arise from an inappropriate immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. In other words, the immune system mistakes some part of the body as a pathogen and attacks its own cells. This may be restricted to certain organs (e.g. in autoimmune thyroiditis) or involve a particular tissue in different places (e.g. Goodpasture's disease which may affect the basement membrane in both the lung and the kidney). The treatment of autoimmune diseases is typically with immunosuppression—medication which decreases the immune response."
My Definition: For whatever reason... Your body is trying to kill itself.
Please note that immunosuppression medications are not always used.
It really just depends on the disease.
I know that probably doesn't make you feel better to read my definition without all the medical jargon, and blah, blah, and if you have just been diagnosed with an Autoimmune disease then you need to hear the facts straight up. To carry on with something like this on a day to day basis it is going to take guts, courage, and hard work. We can do it Together !!!
List of Auto-Immune Diseases:
I could try to list them all but Wikipedia does a better job of it, so here is the Link to Wikipedia.
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