Autoimmune Disease

Autoimmune Disease And How To Treat It

What is an autoimmune disease?

It comes in so many types but is in fact one disease with different symptoms and applications depending on a patient’s age, sex and genes.

The most common autoimmune diseases include: rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis and the like.

How does an autoimmune disease occur?

It is a disease where the body’s immune system attacks its own tissues rather than a foreign molecule like a bacteria. Something confuses your immune system and that something appears to be the enormous load of toxins it is exposed to.

We are exposed to a number of different types of toxins in the environment in so many ways and these play havoc with our immune system. These foreign compounds create an auto response against their self. There are a number of other causes responsible for the autoimmune disease including hidden infections, allergens which are compounded by a poor diet, a processed diet and stress. When these interact with our genes they lead to autoimmune disease. However toxins cannot be ignored as the direct cause of autoimmune disease epidemic.

How do we treat autoimmune disease?

Autoimmune disease can be treated and even cured with a few major dietary changes and removal of toxins and mercury from the body. A major step towards the cure of an autoimmune disease is to get tested for mercury and steroid diseases. One should also make it a point to consult a functional medicine doctor for a proper medication. Ensure to take in nutrients in order to boost your immune system: Vitamin D, essential fatty acids and probiotics should be focused on.

Learn to deeply relax because this directly changes your immune response. Also practice the precautionary principle which says we should avoid anything with a potential for harm.

Our body’s immune system is designed to resist the onslaught of invading microorganisms like bacteria, viruses and parasites. It so happens, that due to some reason the immune system attacks the body itself and this is known as an autoimmune disease.

The scale of autoimmune disease

Autoimmune disease can hit any part of the body, therefore symptoms are naturally different and so are the treatments for each. Let us take a look at the list of a few commonly known autoimmune diseases and their treatment.

- Diabetes mellitus: a form a diabetes which features a raise in blood sugar level

- Multiple sclerosis: inflammation of the nervous system nerves

- Lupus: inflammation in different parts and organs of the body.

- Pemphigus: blistering of the skin and mucous membranes

- Rheumatoid arthritis: inflammation of the joints

- Scleroderma: when the skin becomes inflamed, attacked by body’s immune system itself.

- Graves’ disease: attack on the goiter

The foundation of all autoimmune disease is traced back to the leaky gut syndrome. When the body is allowing toxins through the semi-permeable gastrointestinal tract, antibodies come into action. And as a result, the antibodies attack the healthy bacteria, proteins in our body. When our body creates an immune response it creates inflammation. The tissues of the small intestine and large intestine will be bloated or inflamed or swollen. This is why we at times, end up getting a pressure in the abdomen because of that swelling issue.

Autoimmune Disease Treatment

Medically, practitioners try to give anti-inflammatory medicines which only shut off the symptoms. But close attention should be paid to layers of infection, to possible food allergies or environmental toxins. It could be that one is allergic to pollen or heavy metal. An electro-dermal screening of at least ten thousand points of the body is carried out to see what exactly the cause of autoimmune disease is before diagnosing a treatment.

Autoimmune disease is when your immune system sends out inflammatory proteins that cause inflammation in various parts of your body, inappropriately; instead of your immune system recognizing what belongs to you versus what is foreign inside of you.

For example; in case of flu, bacteria, virus – your immune system recognizes that it doesn’t belong to you and it targets it and tries to destroy it for you. In an autoimmune disease, the immune system fails to recognize that your joints belong to you, so it sets up inflammation and that’s what we call rheumatoid arthritis. If it fails to recognize that your brain and spinal cord belong to you; the condition is called Multiple sclerosis. When it fails to recognize that your heart, lungs and kidneys belong to you this autoimmune disease is referred to as lupus. When it fails to recognize that your skin is part of you (or your body), the condition is known as Psoriasis.

Autoimmune diseases are diseases that are really diseases of the immune system.

Autoimmune disease and its treatments that can be deadly

Our body contains a certain protein called the Tumor Necrosis Alfa (TNF); if this is overproduced it can lead to inflammation of the bones, cartilage and other tissues. There are certain drugs available called the TNF blockers which are usually prescribed for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease and other disease but they have been medically proved to cause grave, function infection.

It is therefore very much advised to go for a natural alternative autoimmune disease therapy with diet, vitamins, herbs and supplements. Foods that can be beneficial in the treatment of an autoimmune disease include Vitamin D, Omega-3 fatty acids, green tea, flavanoids, rose hip and quercetin.