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Autoimmune Diseases
Autoimmune diseses are a result of the body producing antibodies to its own tissues, leading to a destructive inflammation. This disease can affect many different tissues in the body. Your questions about the disease, its causes, treatments, and other questions you would like to ask about Autoimmune Diseases are welcome!
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Which parent is celiac disease inherited from?
Celiac is an inherited trait, like blue eyes, or curly hair. Since it is a recessive inherited trait, both parents of a person with celiac may not have the disease, but are carriers. It is also more prevalent in Scotch-Irish people, red heads and fair complexions. Celiac is not an allergy to wheat or gluten, but an autoimmune disorder. This means that the body attacks itself when gluten is consumed. As an autoimmune disorder, the only treatment is to avoid all products that contain gluten.
There are many people that inherit the trait for celiac, but it also requires a trigger, such as massive consumption of gluten, stress, or viral infection, for celiac to become an active disease. It can begin as early as infancy, and as late as adulthood.
If you have a direct relative with celiac, your chance of having it as well are much greater than the general population.
If your mom has HIV will you get AIDS?
The likelihood of transmission from mother-to-child has been reduced to less than 2% when the mother and baby are treated with anti-retroviral medications.
What are crohn's disease flare ups?
Flare ups are a worsening of Crohns symptoms after a period of remission. Most patients have times when the disease is not active. These remissions can last for days, weeks, months or even years. Remission does not mean you are cured, the disease is just not causing you problems. A flare up is when the disease rears its ugly head once again and you start to feel sick, bowel movements and pain start to increase. Many of us try to ride out these flare ups without seeking medical aid hoping that they will disappear as fast as they re-appeared but often end up on increased or new medication.
Yes. Check out mylabbox.com -they sell FDA-approved HIV home tests. You can collect the sample yourself with a small finger prick and just send them back by mail. You'll get your lab-certified results in as little at 24 hours.. The HIV system available at mylabbox.com, it is the most accurate FDA approved self-test available in the US.
HIV tests are widely sold in an at-home form at many drug stores in the United States. Performing HIV tests at home offers anonymity and convenience to clients who may not otherwise go to a public clinic location. These tests are relatively easy to perform on yourself and your results can be retrieved by phone. A unique number is provided to retreive the results and the testing doesnt require a name to be submitted and processed.
The accuracy of the test is dependent on the person's ability to follow the specific instructions provided in the kit. It is very important that each direction be followed in correct order and that specimens are shipped immediately. The accuracy of the testing will be less than the tests used in a clinic location or HIV testing site.
Rapid response HIV testing is widely available in the U.S. Oral HIV testing is very accurate and most HIV testing locations offer results in as little as 20 minutes.
Getting tested at a free clinic location also saves you the cost of the test (around $50.00) and staff to administer the test correct, answer your questions, and help you better understand your test results.
Does lupus give you hair loss?
Although Lupus can cause your hair to fall out, it will regrow after treatment.
What does HIV do to your body?
If someone is HIV positive, the person has the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. This virus weakens the body's immune system, causing the person to be more susceptible to other illnesses and infections.
Can Celiac Disease cause Fibromyalgia?
I'm not a doctor, and not an expert on either. However, eight months ago I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. I found that by avoiding gluten, my fibromyalgia conditions were eased. Three days ago I was diagnosed with Ceoliac Disease. My doctor explained that while it is unclear whether or not one causes the other, the two are highly correlated. The underlying causes of Fibromyalgia are unknown--it should be viewed more as a syndrome, that is, a collection of symptoms.
Crohn's disease.
What is small bowel enteritis?
An obstruction of the small intestine that prevents the free passage of material; sometimes caused by postoperative adhesions.
What are the advantages of HIV AIDS?
Advantages of aid is that you can kill yourself. Aids is emo. Also you can kill other people if you are sexually active or have a hobby of rape
How does the HIV virus lead to AIDS?
Depends on what topic and/or sub-topic your talking about.
But HIV leads to AIDS, but they effect differently on the two sexes of a male or female.
This disease symptoms for Men are:
- Fever
- Headache
- Tiredness
- Nausea
- Diarrhea
- Enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, armpits or groin.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says the following signs and symptoms may be warning signs of late-stage HIV infection:
- rapid weight loss
- dry cough
- recurring fever or profuse night sweats
- profound and unexplained fatigue
- swollen lymph glands in the armpits, groin, or neck
- diarrhea lasting more than a week
- white spots or unusual blemishes on the tongue, in the mouth, or in the throat
- pneumonia
- red, brown, pink, or purplish blotches on or under the skin or inside the mouth, nose, or eyelids
- memory loss, depression, and other neurological disorders
For Women they are:
- Frequent or severe vaginal infections
- Abnormal Pap smears
- Pelvic infections such as PID that are difficult to treat
Other signs and symptoms of HIV infection include:
- Recurrent vaginal yeast infections
- Pelvic inflammatory disease or PID
- Pap smears that indicate abnormal changes or dysplasia
- Genital ulcers
- Genital warts
- Severe mucosal herpes infections
Frequently, women exposed to HIV experience flu-like symptoms within a couple of weeks of becoming infected. In other cases, there are no symptoms for many years.
As the infection progresses, it is not uncommon to experience symptoms such as:
- Swollen lymph glands in the neck, underarm area, or groin
- Frequent fevers that include night sweats
- Rapid weight loss without dieting
- Constant fatigue
- Decreased appetite and diarrhea
- White spots or abnormal blemishes in the mouth
Can Methamphetamine use cause crohns disease?
Methadone is an opioid and this class of drug has had some limited use in the control of pain in Crohns patients. Opioids are painkillers such as codeine, morphine and diamorphine (heroin). They work by mimicking the action of naturally occurring pain-reducing chemicals called endorphins. Opioids are highly addictive and there are far better pain control options available.
What is the average life span for a patient with severe Crohn's disease?
Most of us survive Crohns disease. The mortality rate is rather low in North America.
Because many patients are in extremely poor condition before diagnosis, the survival rate after the first diagnosis is better than 95 percent after the first year and 80 percent after twelve years. It should be noted that most deaths occur from complications post surgery and other diseases due to weakened immune systems.
when you have sex and u catch it off some one else
You might get infected with HIV, and later you might develop AIDS. You can get infected with HIV from anyone who's infected, even if they don't look sick and even if they haven't tested HIV-positive yet. The blood, vaginal fluid, semen, and breast milk of people infected with HIV has enough of the virus in it to infect other people. Most people get the HIV virus by:
- having sex with an infected person
- sharing a needle (shooting drugs) with someone who's infected
- being born when their mother is infected, or drinking the breast milk of an infected woman
Getting a transfusion of infected blood used to be a way people got AIDS, but now the blood supply is screened very carefully and the risk is extremely low.
There are no documented cases of HIV being transmitted by tears or saliva, but it is possible to be infected with HIV through oral sex or in rare cases through deep kissing, especially if you have open sores in your mouth or bleeding gum.
-Information from article "What is AIDS?" http://www.aidsinfonet.org/fact_sheets/view/101
aids is developed when you don't take the necessary medication
Yes lupus can kill, directly and indirectly. 40% of lupus patients develop lupus nephritis or kidney disease. Some respond to treatment, others don't. People with systemic lupus have twice the risk of atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. This can cause heart attacks and strokes. Some people with lupus have antiphospholipid antibody syndrome which causes abnormal clotting of the blood also leading to cardiovascular events. If lupus attacks the liver you also die. I personally know two people who died of lupus nephritis and two who died of cardiovascular events in 2008 alone. In my case I had pericarditis, pleurisy, pleural effusion, bone marrow failure and kidney failure and am very luck to be alive. Most cases of lupus are mild to moderate, but it can kill.
Is an autoimmune disorder deadly?
Not all autoimmune diseases are dangerous, in fact the majority of them are not. They can be life threatening and often life changing. Some of the drugs used to treat severe cases can have serious side -effects , even years after treatment has finished. An autoimmune disease is the pathogenic result, of an abnormalimmune response, (Auto=self autoimmune) which instead of mounting a response to things which invade the body, is misdirected and targets certain componemts of *self*, be it in skin, blood , organs etc. The underlying of cause of ever having an autoimmune response, lies in mutated genes, which carry a genetic predisposition.Not everyone having these genes will have an autoimmune response, they are just more likely to. It takes a specific combination of these faulty genes, plus enviromental factors such as viruses etc, and or factors of self such as hormones etc. to stimulate these mutated genes, resulting in an abnormal immune response targeting *self*. Some people also carry an hereditary gene factor. to a specific disease itself like Psoriasis or diabetes. Therefore not all Autoimmune diseases are hereditary. The pathogenic result of an autoimmune response in any individual is the disease manifest. The genes predisposing an individual are a part of a persons genetic make-up and always will be. There is no cure for autoimmunity of which there are over 80 different conditions. Autoimmune conditions tend to wax and wane in severity, and can have long or short periods of remission, which often fools people into believing their alternative regimes are working, when in fact it is just the waxing and waning of the disease or they have gone into remission. The majority of children, especially with skin conditions tend to remit at puberty. FOOD, SUPPLEMENTS, DIET, DETOX OR ANY OTHER ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, CANNOT PREVENT OR CURE AUTOIMMUNITY. All that can be done is to CONTROL it. Please note that ANY Autoimmune Bullous (Blistering) skin condition can potentially affect the eyes, causing blindness.
it is not curable because the virus HIV change its shape ........... HIV is different in different times
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)
Greg Louganis is HIV positive. You are probably just confusing the two.
What are the neurological symptoms of tuberous sclerosis?
TSC can affect many different systems of the body, causing a variety of signs and symptoms. Signs of the disorder vary depending on which system and which organs are involved. The natural course of TSC varies from individual to individual, with symptoms ranging from very mild to quite severe. In addition to the benign tumors that frequently occur in TSC, other common symptoms include seizures, mental retardation, behavior problems, and skin abnormalities. Tumors can grow in nearly any organ, but they most commonly occur in the brain, kidneys, heart, lungs, and skin. Malignant tumors are rare in TSC. Those that do occur primarily affect the kidneys.
Kidney problems such as cysts and angiomyolipomas occur in an estimated 70 to 80 percent of individuals with TSC, usually occurring between ages 15 and 30. Cysts are usually small, appear in limited numbers, and cause no serious problems. Approximately 2 percent of individuals with TSC develop large numbers of cysts in a pattern similar to polycystic kidney disease2 during childhood. In these cases, kidney function is compromised and kidney failure occurs. In rare instances, the cysts may bleed, leading to blood loss and anemia.
Angiomyolipomas-benign growths consisting of fatty tissue and muscle cells-are the most common kidney lesions in TSC. These growths are seen in the majority of TSC patients, but are also found in about one of every 300 people without TSC. Angiomyolipomas caused by TSC are usually found in both kidneys and in most cases they produce no symptoms. However, they can sometimes grow so large that they cause pain or kidney failure. Bleeding from angiomyolipomas may also occur, causing both pain and weakness. If severe bleeding does not stop naturally, there may severe blood loss, resulting in profound anemia and a life-threatening drop in blood pressure, warranting urgent medical attention.
Other rare kidney problems include renal cell carcinoma, developing from an angiomyolipoma, and oncocytomas, benign tumors unique to individuals with TSC.
Three types of brain tumors are associated with TSC: cortical tubers, for which the disease is named, generally form on the surface of the brain, but may also appear in the deep areas of the brain; subependymal nodules, which form in the walls of the ventricles-the fluid-filled cavities of the brain; and giant-cell tumors (astrocytomas), a type of tumor that can grow and block the flow of fluids within the brain, causing a buildup of fluid and pressure and leading to headaches and blurred vision.
Tumors called cardiac rhabdomyomas are often found in the hearts of infants and young children with TSC. If the tumors are large or there are multiple tumors, they can block circulation and cause death. However, if they do not cause problems at birth-when in most cases they are at their largest size-they usually become smaller with time and do not affect the individual in later life.
Benign tumors called phakomas are sometimes found in the eyes of individuals with TSC, appearing as white patches on the retina. Generally they do not cause vision loss or other vision problems, but they can be used to help diagnose the disease.
Additional tumors and cysts may be found in other areas of the body, including the liver, lung, and pancreas. Bone cysts, rectal polyps, gum fibromas, and dental pits may also occur.
A wide variety of skin abnormalities may occur in individuals with TSC. Most cause no problems but are helpful in diagnosis. Some cases may cause disfigurement, necessitating treatment. The most common skin abnormalities include:
- Hypomelanic macules ("ash leaf spots"), which are white or lighter patches of skin that may appear anywhere on the body and are caused by a lack of skin pigment or melanin-the substance that gives skin its color.
- Reddish spots or bumps called facial angiofibromas (also called adenoma sebaceum), which appear on the face (sometimes resembling acne) and consist of blood vessels and fibrous tissue.
- Raised, discolored areas on the forehead called forehead plaques, which are common and unique to TSC and may help doctors diagnose the disorder.
- Areas of thick leathery, pebbly skin called shagreen patches, usually found on the lower back or nape of the neck.
- Small fleshy tumors called ungual or subungual fibromas that grow around and under the toenails or fingernails and may need to be surgically removed if they enlarge or cause bleeding. These usually appear later in life, ages 20 - 50.
- Other skin features that are not unique to individuals with TSC, including molluscum fibrosum or skin tags, which typically occur across the back of the neck and shoulders, café au lait spots or flat brown marks, and poliosis, a tuft or patch of white hair that may appear on the scalp or eyelids.
TSC can cause seizures and varying degrees of mental disability. Seizures of all types may occur, including infantile spasms; tonic-clonic seizures (also known as grand mal seizures); or tonic, akinetic, atypical absence, myoclonic, complex partial, or generalized seizures.
Approximately one-half to two-thirds of individuals with TSC have mental disabilities ranging from mild learning disabilities to severe mental retardation. Behavior problems, including aggression, sudden rage, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, acting out, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and repetitive, destructive, or self-harming behavior, often occur in children with TSC, and can be difficult to manage. Some individuals with TSC may also have a developmental disorder called autism.
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.
Normal value of Erythrocyte sedimentation rate?
male -up to 15, female -up to20
The normal sedimentation rate (Westergren method) for males is 0-15 millimeters per hour, and for females is 0-20 millimeters per hour. The sedimentation rate can be slightly more elevated in the elderly and is much lower for children.
Is lupus widespread or merely localized effects in the body?
Lupus can be wide spread, but most medication stops it from doing so.
Most Lupus cases have deterioration of the kidney and bladder functions.
But, I am not a doctor. Please refer to a rheumatologist.
