What exactly is an autoimmune disease ?!
Question: What exactly is an autoimmune disease .?
I have been told that I have an autoimmune disease .? Can someone tell me waht that means in english...not doctor languageHealth Question & Answer
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Everyone has white blood cells in their blood stream. These are made in bone marrow, mature in the spleen and then enter the blood. They have many different types, but from your point of view that doesn't matter.
White blood cells are the immune cells in our body. When a virus, bacteria, fungus etc. colonises a part of us, the white blood cells will leave the circulation and attack the foreign organism. It knows it is foreign because of identifiers called antigens on the foreign cell surface.
However, in some people, the cells will become 'confused', and will identify normal body cells as foreign. It will then attack them. This causes all the same symptoms as when they attack infected tissue, such as swelling, redness, soreness, pain and heat in the area. This is an autoimmune disease. Each disease has a different set of symptoms, but this is the basic explanation of what happens.
Good luck, hope you're better soon.Health Question & Answer
White blood cells are the immune cells in our body. When a virus, bacteria, fungus etc. colonises a part of us, the white blood cells will leave the circulation and attack the foreign organism. It knows it is foreign because of identifiers called antigens on the foreign cell surface.
However, in some people, the cells will become 'confused', and will identify normal body cells as foreign. It will then attack them. This causes all the same symptoms as when they attack infected tissue, such as swelling, redness, soreness, pain and heat in the area. This is an autoimmune disease. Each disease has a different set of symptoms, but this is the basic explanation of what happens.
Good luck, hope you're better soon.Health Question & Answer
Autoimmune diseases happens when the body produces an inappropriate immune response against its own tissues. Sometimes it will cease to recognize one or more of the body
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