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An autoimmune disease is caused by the immune system attacking you instead of threats and diseases coming from outside you. In autoimmune diseases, the body makes a mistake and attacks its own tissues.
a condition that causes the body's own immune system to wrongly identify cells as foreign and attack them.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 11y ago"auto-immune disease is the proper name for AIDS" <<< that is not correct.
The proper name for AIDS is acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
This statement above is some what true. The proper name for AIDS is acquired immune deficiency syndrome. And it is an auto immune disease. There are many types of auto immune diseases. IE: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Crohns Disease, Lupus and many more.
Many more would include type 1 Diabetes, celiac disease, ulcerative colitis, multiple sclerosis, and still more yet. An auto-immune disease is caused by an overactive immune system. In some people, when their body has no invasive organisms to attack, it starts attacking its own body. It will attack organs such as the pancreas, the colon, or small intestine. Often times when a person gets one auto-immune disease, they are likely to develop more auto-immune diseases. An example is that one in twenty diabetics will develop celiac disease.
The proper name for AIDS is acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
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Can autoimmune diseases cause Secondary vasculitis?
Autoimmune diseases can cause Secondary vasculitis
Why can a child get multiple autoimmune diseases?
Anyone can get get multiple autoimmune diseases. There is nothing unique about children.
Do Indians get autoimmune diseases?
People of all ethnicities are vulnerable to autoimmune diseases. No one is immune.
How are Autoimmune diseases classified?
Autoimmune diseases are classified as either general, in which the autoimmune reaction takes place simultaneously in a number of tissues, or organ specific, in which the autoimmune reaction targets a single organ
Where can I find information about autoimmune disease?
Information about autoimmune diseases can be aquired by scanning medical books or by asking autoimmune diseases experts. Another way would be to use the medical wikipedia.
Which disease doesn't cause infectious diseases?
Genetic diseases Autoimmune diseases Some parasitical diseases.
Are headaches autoimmune diseases?
no its just that you are stressed
Why autoimmune diseases occur more in women?
Although most things in autoimmune diseases are very poorly understood now and there is very little known about how they work, hormones in general have a connection to autoimmune diseases. Pregnancy also has quite a bit to do with autoimmune diseases usually by increasing your risk of getting an autoimmune disease if you've had one in the past year. On the other hand some women have the opposite effect by protecting a woman with an autoimmune disease. So essentially it is unsure what the reason is pregnancy and hormones play a part. (sources: Living well with Autoimmune Disease)
What can you do to cure autoimmune diseases?
autoimmune disorder is still a uncurable, but early detection and prevention can be done.
What class of antibodies causes autoimmune disorders?
The class IgG is usually associated with autoimmune diseases
How many people in America have autoimmune disorders?
Estimates place the number of people with autoimmune diseases at 1 in 12. In the United States it is 23.5 million according to the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association. www.aarda.org
Is Systemic Lupus related to Crohn's disease?
Both systemic lupus and Crohn's disease are autoimmune. Autoimmune diseases frequently occur together. There are some one hundred autoimmune diseases. Learn more at www.aarda.org.
