Are there other immune deficiency diseases besides AIDS?!


Question: Are there other immune deficiency diseases besides AIDS.?
Answers:
Yes, there are a bunch of them. The difference between Primary Immune Deficiency diseases and HIV/AIDS is that those immune deficiency diseases are genetic (meaning they are inherited from your biological parents).

Here are a few:
* X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia (XLA)
* Common Variable Immunodeficiency
(CVID)/ Hypogammaglobulinemia
* Hyper-IgM Syndrome
* Selective IgA Deficiency
* IgG Subclass Deficiency
* Severe Combined
Immunodeficiency (SCID)
* Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome
* DiGeorge Syndrome
* Ataxia-telangiectasia

Health Question & Answer

Immunodeficiency (or immune deficiency) is a state in which the immune system's ability to fight infectious disease is compromised or entirely absent.

There are two types:

Primary immunodeficiency: in which the body's immune system is missing, or doesn't function properly. There are over 120 primary immune deficiencies. An example of this is Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.

Secondary: gotten from the environment, drugs, or other diseases. AIDS is an example of this.Health Question & Answer

yes there are many diseases that you can get from a compromised immune system. my system was compromised by exposure to many different toxins while i was in the military. as a result i have diabetes,nerve pain,and bi-lateral menieres disease plus trigeminal neuralgia. the toxins compromise your immune system,and then your immune system can not fight off a virus, that causes menieres disease. the toxins also caused central nervous system damage. i am 57 now, i just caught a cold, because of my compromised immune system it will take a month or so before the cold goes away. at some point in my life, probably sooner rather then later, i will get a virus that i will not be able to fight off, and i will die , probably 10-15 years before i would. it could start off as something minor, such as a cold, but get much worse. anti-biotics do not work on a virus. every time i get a cold i wonder if this is the one that will get me. people with compromised immune systems must be very careful,it doesn't much matter how the system was or became compromised.Health Question & Answer

Aids means Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome .
the person with aids was normal but he got AIDS by acquisition.
some people are born with defects in the immune system, or primary immunodeficiency. immunocompromised person may be particularly vulnerable to opportunistic infections, in addition to normal infections that could affect everyone.
Health Question & Answer

Yes.
Most of the sufferers die. You should watch the movie "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" starring John Travolta.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074236/


Health Question & Answer

well, aids is THE ONE...but there are other diseases that make you immuno comprimised. diabetes, cancer, hepatitis etc.Health Question & Answer



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