Your immune system attacking your own body.
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It is neither bacterial nor viral. Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease. That means that your body's immune system is attacking parts of your body. In the case of multiple sclerosis the immune system is attacking the protective cover around the nerve cells.
The purpose of the body's immune system is to protect the body from harmful pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, and other foreign invaders. It does this by recognizing and attacking these invaders to prevent illness and infection.
self-substances In an autoimmune disease, the immune system becomes overactive and directs itself toward the body's own tissues and systems. Instead of attacking a specific disease, or foreign invader to the body, the immune system attacks the body that it should be protecting.
T-cells are a type of white blood cell that play a crucial role in the immune system by identifying and attacking infected cells and pathogens to protect the body from infections and diseases.
the immune system protects the body from invading pathogyns
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This happens to my Mom sometimes. When she's really stressed, tired, sick, etc; her immune system starts attacking her body again. I don't know why, it just does. It happened with her immune system or something like that and also her eyes. The immune System needs to know what is friendly and a threat to the brain & body. Although it has trouble sometimes when you get a transplant and the shape/size/composition/etc isn't similar enough to your own.
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.
It would be their immune system.
The viral theory suggests that the immune system is activated in response to a viral invader, but then fails to turn itself off. Some other immune malfunction then causes the overly active immune system to begin attacking the body's own tissues.