Auto Immune Disease
What is Autoimmune Disease?
The immune system normally protects the body from infections and disease brought about by bacteria, viruses, germs, or abnormal body cells. When an autoimmune disease develops, the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys its own tissues and organs.
Many parts of the body such as the red blood cells, blood vessels, connective tissues, digestive system, endocrine system, muscles, joints, nerves and skin may be affected. Autoimmune diseases predominantly affect women, frequently during their childbearing years. These diseases often tend to be hereditary, and certain environmental factors may also contribute to a weakened immune system.
Autoimmune disease symptoms vary from individual to individual, with each disease being different. Ranging from mild symptoms to more debilitating conditions, a malfunction of the immune system occurs in all of them. Prominent examples includes:
1. Ankylosing Spondylitis
2. Chagas Disease
3. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
4. Crohns Disease (one of two types of idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease "IBD")
5. Dermatomyositis
6. Diabetes mellitus Type 1
7. Endometriosis
8. Goodpasture's syndrome
9. Anti-Basement Membrane Collagen Type IV Protein
10. Graves' Disease
11. Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS)
12. Anti-ganglioside Hashimoto's disease
13. Hidradenitis suppurativa
14. Kawasaki disease
15. IgA Nephropathy,
16. Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
17. Interstitial Cystitis
18. Lupus erythematosus
19. Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
20. Morphea
21. Multiple Sclerosis
22. Myasthenia Gravis
23. Narcolepsy
24. Neuromyotonia
25. Pemphigus Vulgaris
26. Pernicious Anaemia
27. Psoriasis
28. Psoriatic Arthritis
29. Polymyositis
30. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
31. Schizophrenia
32. Scleroderma
33. Anti-topoisomerase Sjögren's syndrome
34. Stiff person syndrome
35. Ulcerative Colitis (one of two types of idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease "IBD")
Vasculitis
36. Vitiligo
37. Wegener's Granulomatosis
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