Autoimmune Diseases

well my sister has crohns disease,and it affects everyone. but to answer your question...it changes their diet so they cant have certain foods,they have to take their meds or whatever they do to control it everyday or when needed, and deal with the pain and other medical problems that come with it. i know of a website that might help but im not sure so I'll give it to you anyway.

www.ccfa.org

involves the use of a variety of skin creams. Sunscreens are used for protection. Steroid creams can be applied to decrease inflammation. Occasionally, small amounts of a steroid preparation will be injected with a needle into a specific lesion

No

No, to get AIDS you must have physical contact with another person who has AIDS. You cannot get AIDS if you did not have physical contact with another person who has AIDS.

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skin, muscular, skeletal, heart, lungs, kidneys, brain...possibly others.

A rheumatologist treats lupus in general however many different conditions can be acquired due to lupus. In such cases a different specialist may be required to manage those specific conditions. For example, renal involvement due to lupus will need the care of a nephrologist. Lupus patients may need to be seen by a number of specialists to manage different areas of the disease.

And let's not forget our Interal medicne doc.

The treatments goals in lupus are two fold: provide relief from the symptoms and pevent permanent damage. Depending on the severity of lupus and what body parts are affected, different medications and strategies are used. Since lupus is an inflammatory disease, both non-steroidal anti-iflammatory medications and steroids are often used. Since lupus is an auto-immune disease, various immunosuppressive drugs are also used. Some of these are hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil), steroids (both antin-inflammatory and immunsuppressive), mycophenoloate mofetil (Cellcept), methotrexate, azathioprine (Imuran), cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan). If the lupus patient has any of the lupus clotting factors, blood thinners like coumadin are added to the treatment regimen. Recent research shows that lupus patients are twice as likely as the general population to experience cardiovascular events so some doctors are also prescribing statins. Attention to a healthy diet, an exercise program, stress management and avoiding UVA and UVB light are useful tools in managing lupus.

About 20 percent of people with Crohn's disease have a blood relative with some form of inflammatory bowel disease, most often a brother or sister and sometimes a parent or child.

The chance of your child developing Crohn's Disease is quite small, most children born to women with Crohn's disease are unaffected.

AIDS is not able to be classified as fatal or non-fatal. AIDS is a diagnosis given to someone who is HIV+ and exhibiting certain clinical criteria.

HIV is a potentially deadly virus that requires advanced medical care to be treated successfully. HIV positive people may live a very long time if proper medical care is readily available and applied successfully.

There was in increase in ESR due to loss of blood.

People with AIDS have poor immune systems so can be prey to any number of 'opportunistic' diseases, including skin diseases. For example, some AIDS sufferers died from Karposi's sarcoma.

However, you should never assume that someone with a skin problem, e.g. loss of pigment, has AIDS.

The first recorded description of this condition were made by an Italian physician Giovanni Battista Morgagni in 1769, when he diagnosed a young man with a chronic, debilitating painful illness and uncontrolled diarrhea. Crohns is now named after an American gastroenterologist, Dr. Burrill B. Crohn. The disease was initially known as a medical entity when it was referred to by Doctors Crohn, Ginzburg, and Gordon D. Oppenheimer in 1932.

Absolutely. Liquid diets such as Ensure and Boost are very useful in keeping nutrition levels stable and are easily digestible.

homozygous means you have two alleles with the same characteristic.

example; two alleles for brown eyes

recessive means that when you have two different alleles, one of then doesn't show its trait

example; one allele for brown eyes and one allele for green eyes gives brown eyes, because green eyes are recessive

people who have green eyes have homozygous recessive alleles for green eyes (two alleles for green eyes)

The myelin sheeth helps keep signals (like electrical impulses) within the axon so that they can get to the cell body (of the neuron). This is necessary for muscles to contract (to move). If myelin is lost the signal or "electrical impulse" is less and less which has an affect on muscle function because there isn't enough signal to stimulate or "tell" the muslce to move.

Experts are not sure, and studies and research are ongoing. Several theories exist but unfortunately, none of these theories has yet been scientifically proven. Most experts agree that the immune system of people with Crohn's disease reacts abnormally - it treats good bacteria, foods, and other substances that are good for us as foreign and unwanted substances. In other words, the patients own immune system attacks. This leaves us with the question, does Crohn's disease cause an abnormal immune system response, or does an abnormal immune system response cause Crohn's disease

Multiple sclerosis is not a "deadly" or "lethal" disease. It does not kill a person like, say, stage 4 inoperable breast or colon cancer. But it can become very aggressive and debilitating at any time. I have MS and saw your question and I hope this effectively answers it. Although MS pt's don't usually die from the disease itself there is a much higher rate of suicide due to physical and mental toll this disease takes on the patient, much higher than the general public.

People who are at the end stage of HIV are classified as having AIDS. They will have high viral loads, low CD4+ counts, develop conditions such as Kaposi's sarcoma, thrush, PCP and other opportunistic infections. Typically, it is the infections that causes death.

someone who sleeps around and doesn't use protection. also, it is people who don't know their sexual partners very well. Also doctors/ nurses and carers are at risk. Drug users who inject also put themselfs in danger

While transmission could be possible, tears are probably the body fluid least likely to harbor the virus. Tears contain both salt and components that actively fight against microorganisms of all kinds. Out of all the microbes that your eyes come in contact with nearly constantly, only a few can survive long enough or in sufficient quantities to cause an infection.

The short answer is "No". HIV is spread by certain bodily fluids, (blood, seminal fluids, vaginal fluids and breast milk).

If you picked up someone else's spoon first they would have to have HIV and there would have to be bodily fluid on the spoon (spit doesn't pass the virus well at all) and you would have to have an opening or cut in or on your mouth.

The chances are very very low that HIV could pass on a spoon.

It's neither. AID's is the mature Developed form of the retrovirus referred to as HIV.

I'm sure you want a more definitive answer though. It can be considered a virus essentially because it comes from HIV, which is a virus in itself, but people don't classify it as such.

This can often be caused by something as simple as bullet wounds, puncture wounds by arrows or spears, being struck by comets or tiny astroids, and a byproduct of Ding Fever, Malaria, and muscle pain accompanied by Small Pox. If it continues, a physician's visit is advised.

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Because early HIV infection often causes no symptoms, a healthcare provider usually can diagnose it by testing blood for the presence of antibodies (disease-fighting proteins) to HIV.

The most common test for AIDS is the ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immuno-Sorbent Assay), which is performed on a blood sample. This test is very sensitive and detects almost all persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) except during the first few weeks of infection. The ELISA test detects the body's immune response to HIV. * In the early 1980s when the HIV/AIDS epidemic began, people with AIDS were not likely to live longer than a few years. With the development of safe and effective drugs, however, people infected with HIV now have longer and healthier lives. * Currently, there are 30 antiretroviral drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat people infected with HIV. * The best way of self-protection is to learn as much as possible about HIV infection, avoid risky behavior, and follow guidelines for protection. Abstinence, non-penetrative sex or a stable relationship between mutually faithful partners is optimal.

Crohn's disease has no cure. Research is ongoing, new medications and treatments are being investigated with clinical trials in several countries however no cure is available. Right now the best we can hope for is control and relief of symptoms.

Some Crohn's patients find that certain foods are hard to digest, including milk, large quantities of fiber, and spicy foods. Dietary adjustments are usually necessary to minimize pain, diarrhea, and other symptoms.