Autoimmune disorder is the disorder in which the immune system, which generally defends the body against the disease, takes healthy cells also as a foreign, as a result immune system attacks the healthy cells. Autoimmune disorder affects the different organs and tissues in the body. There are many types of autoimmune disorder. This disorder may have no symptoms or worsening symptoms. There is no curative therapy, treatment for the autoimmune disorder. This disorder affects the different parts of the body depending on the type of the disorder. There are around 80 or more than those autoimmune disorders.
The following are the common types of autoimmune disorder:
Normally, the immune system produces antibodies against the antigens that enables to destroy the harmful substances like bacteria, virus, etc. When having autoimmune disorder, the immune system is not able to distinguish between the healthy tissue and antigen. As the result, the body destroys the healthy tissue.
The causes of the autoimmune disorder are unknown, but few are the trigger factors which are as follows:
Ayurveda is a holistic medicine, which treats the main root cause of the disease. According to this, the autoimmune disorders occurs due to ama (the toxic waste material); whereas ama is caused by the low agni (digestive fire) and low ojas (immunity). So the root cause of the autoimmune disorder is low agni and weak ojas.
Areas are more often effected by the autoimmune disorder are as follows:
Most autoimmune disease are chronic, it may be controlled by treatment. When symptoms get worse, it is called flare-up. The outcomes depend on the disease.
Complications depend on the disease. Medicines used to suppress the immune system can cause severe side effects, such as higher risk of infection.