Autoimmune Diseases. Victim - Any System or Authority!

Autoimmune diseases occur when the body's immune system ceases to function properly and fights against relatives and friends. The organism avenges in this way a person for the fact that it does not protect it and wears it out. Rheumatoid arthritis, vitiligo, myocarditis, rheumatism of the heart, thyroiditis, psoriasis, diabetes are all diagnoses that are put on the development of autoimmune diseases in the body. You can continue to enumerate, there are a lot of such diseases.

Rheumatologists, endocrinologists, neurologists and doctors of other specializations have been trying to find the exact causes of autoimmune diseases for more than half a century. The main one is the failure of the immune system, which occurs after a serious viral, less often bacterial infection of the body.

Autoimmune diseases develop in this order:

1. The virus, entering cells, changes their structure. Immunity actively fights infected cells. A person does not give the body enough time at this moment to fully recover, the illness is prolonged, the immunity is accustomed to destroy cells of one or another organ (heart, joints, lungs, blood - the organ that is infected with the virus). As a result, a large number of cells of the organ are destroyed, the organ ceases to cope with its functions, the inflammatory process of the tissues begins.

2. The tissues are destroyed, their particles fall into the blood, which contains a large number of antibodies, which produces immunity to these tissues. Naturally, these particles are again perceived by the body as enemies and the immune system even more begins to destroy an already inflamed organ. The process closes. There is an autoimmune reaction.

In addition to careless attitude to their health, autoimmune diseases can arise for other reasons. Cells of bacteria that infect the body may initially resemble human cells. As a result, immunity is simply lost due to the same structure and continues to fight the pest even when it is already destroyed. No bacteria, and similar cells in the body remained. They are the victims of the attack of the developed antibodies.

Other external causes of the disease are radiation, environmental pollution of water and air, which leads to mutations in the cells. The immune system does not tolerate such cells in the body and begins to struggle with them. Then everything goes according to the same scenario. The result is autoimmune diseases, which are inherited. An example is diabetes, hemophilia, psoriasis and others.

Treatment of autoimmune diseases is very difficult. In fact, these diseases are incurable, it is possible only to slow down the process of organ destruction. For this, it is periodically necessary to clean the blood from antibodies with sorbents. In very severe cases, immunity is suppressed to slow the production of antibodies. However, this leads to a weakening of the whole organism.

The treatment of autoimmune diseases with the help of medications is primarily aimed at maintaining the disturbed functions of susceptible organs. So, for example, for autoimmune diseases of the endocrine system (pancreas, thyroid gland, ovaries), a life-long intake of synthetic hormones is prescribed, which are no longer able to produce damaged glands (estrogen, insulin, thyroxine).

When arthritis is often prescribed non-steroidal medications that slow inflammation, reduce pain in the joints, but do not stop, and sometimes even accelerate the process of tissue destruction.

To treat autoimmune diseases should be a very competent specialist, since many medications cause severe side effects, which sometimes are even more dangerous than the disease itself. So, for example, if thyroid hormones are not properly taken, the entire endocrine system can go out of balance , which will eventually lead to the malfunction of the whole organism.

Most people who suffer from autoimmune diseases are forced to just accept that it happened and learn to live with them, to the best of their ability to help the body cope with disrupted functions and protect their health from new infections.