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What causes Auto Immune diseases?

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What happen to the immune system if you have auto immune diseases?

To have an auto immune disease, your immune system has to be totally active. Most of the auto immune diseases are most probably caused by undiagnosed chronic infections. Your body will not attack the body proteins for no reason. Very shortly, you will find out the treatment for most of the autoimmune diseases.


Can fenugreek as food fight against auto immune diseases?

Yes, using fenugreek as food will help fight against auto immune diseases. It has been used to treat arthritis, colds, and kidney aliments.


What are Auto-Immune Diseases?

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.


Do auto-immune diseases prevent you from fighting other diseases?

Auto-immune diseases make it harder for your immune system to engage other infections that may possibly infect the body. In the case of HIV, it uses cells the body needs to fight disease to reproduce; thus inhibiting the body's ability to fight off other infections.


What are some of the risk factors for Multiple Sclerosis?

MS is an auto-immune disease, much like Lupus, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and a host of others. MS is the result of the immune system mistakenly attacking and destroying healthy body tissue, which is what happens in any auto-immune disorder. It is unknown what causes auto-immune diseases. Possible theories include stress and/or food additives, but there is no evidence to categorically state the cause. There is no prevention and no cure. Auto-immune diseases require different levels of intervention and medical treatment, but for the most part are manageable. None are genetically linked and none are the result of "an irresponsible lifestyle."


What disease causes the body to attack pathogens and its normal cells?

Auto-immune


What does vitiligo do to your skin?

Vitiligo is an auto immune diseases. It causes loss of pigment melanin from skin which actually skin color as result skin divided in to two color 1 real and 2 white


What are four diseases prevalent during summers in delhi?

some of them are- * Skin cancer - * Auto immune diseases * Pollen problems * Increase in attacks of Asthma


How do auto immune diseases work?

Autoimmune diseases are when the immune system mistakes healthy body tissue for invaders that need to be destroyed. So what happens is the body starts to attack itself and destroy its own tissues.


Which is not caused by bacteria?

Viruses (e.g. colds and flu), auto-immune diseases, and most forms of cancer are just a few examples of diseases that are not caused by bacteria.


What are the main causes of children to get diseases?

The child is not immune to the bacteria or virus that gave the child that particular disease.


Which diseases are caused by a virus alone?

The H.I.Virus (HIV) which then causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).