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HIV AIDS is a disease that compromises the immune system, but most immune system diseases are autoimmune diseases, where the body's immune system attacks the body's own cells. Example of this include multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, myasthenia gravis, lupus, Grave's disease, Type I Diabetes mellitus, Crohn's disease, and celiac disease (gluten intolerance).
Other diseases that compromise the immune system like AIDS include SCID (severe combined immunodeficiency), aka Boy-in-a-bubble syndrome, which is a genetic disease characterized by the absence of functional lymphocytes, and CGD (chronic granulomatous disease), which is characterized by chronic infections due to the compromise of the ability of certain leukocytes (neutrophils and macrophages in particular) to conduct 'oxidative bursts' (a molecular 'shotgun' that sprays harmful reactive oxygen compounds (superoxide, hypochlorous acid, nitric oxide) at microbes to kill them).
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How does immune deficiency diseases affect victims?
Their immune system becomes weaker.
2 chronic diseases of the immune system?
Probably the disease most commonly recognized as a disease of the immune system is Human immunodeficiency virus infection/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), which is known as a secondary immune deficiency disorder (secondary = caused by something acting on the body, like the HIV virus that causes AIDS, as opposed to being primary = caused by inherited genetic mutations). There are many primary immune deficiency disorders, but these are less well-known, examples are: Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) and Selective Immunoglobulin A Deficiency.Other diseases or disorders that affect the immune system are those that cause autoimmune diseases, such as Lupus Erythematosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, and Pernicious Anemia. These cause the the immune system to get confused and attack your cells as if they are foreign invaders to try to destroy the cells.There are also medications that can affect the immune system to depress the immune response so that people with transplanted organs do not have the immune system attacking the "foreign" organ and creating "rejection".
What problems can go wrong with the immune system?
There are many diseases that involve some aspect of the immune system function or malfunction. The most obvious would be infectious diseases such as bacterial, viral and parasitic infections.Hormones affect the immune system, so diseases that disrupt normal hormonal activity can affect the immune system.Diseases that affect the sleep cycles also can affect the immune system since sleep deprivation has negative impacts on the immune system (e.g., sleep apnea, insomnia, etc.).Other diseases or disorders of the immune system can manifest with over-activity and some with under-activity of the immune function, some are congenital and some are acquired, some are due to diseases that are damaging to parts of the immune system itself (e.g., alcoholism, obesity, drug use, malnutrition such as Vitamin D deficiency, etc.), and some diseases are affected by the immune system function or malfunction.The immune system function can also be modified and affected by the treatment and medication used for some diseases and conditions, such as anti-rejection drugs used in transplants and in autoimmune diseases and anti-neoplastic chemotherapy (cancer treatment) drugs. Another that can damage the immune system function is radiation therapy.Some examples of immune system diseases and disorders are: HIV/AIDS, systemic Lupus (SLE or systemic lupus erythematosis), and other autoimmune disorders, leukemia, lymphoma and other cancers, mononucleosis, Type 1 diabetes mellitus, allergies, asthma, Crohn's Disease, MS, Guillan-Barre syndrome. See the Related Link below for more. HIV/Aids.
What are some diseases of the circulatory and immune systems?
Diseases that affect both the immune system and circulatory system include temporal arteritis and other autoimmune vasculitides, immune-modulated hemolytic anemias, and lupus-related heart disease, for a few examples.
Five diseases or disorders that attack the skeletal system and how does the skeletal system attack the diseases and disorders?
DISEASESPolioRicketsDISORDERSFracturesDislocations
What body system is most affected by hiv?
Your immune system. AIDS will make you more susceptible to other diseases, it will not directly affect any other body systems.
How would the removal of a persons lymph node affect the bodies ability to fight disease?
Because lymph nodes are part of the immune system and the immune system fights diseases.
What can affect the immune system?
Diseases that directly affect the immune system are known as Autoimmune Diseases, including Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, and Chron's disease. Other conditions that impact the body's ability to fight off disease include Diabetes, AIDS, and Hepatitis C.
What system shelters humans from threats such as diseases and toxins?
The immune system
What are the two immunodeficiency diseases?
The 2 main types of immune system disorders are Allergies and Asthma. Other types of disorders are autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid Arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease.
Where is AIDS found and who does it affect?
AIDS can be found anywhere and affect anybody. It is a situation when a person who is HIV+ has his/her immune system destroyed and that is easy for other diseases to take advantage of that weak immune system. Now that can happen to anyone, anywhere.
What are all the immundeficiency disorders?
Mainly its AIDS ....... in such disorders the immune system is attacted.
