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Autoimmune Diseases
Your body's immune system protects you from disease
and infection. But if you have an autoimmune disease,
your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body
by mistake. Autoimmune diseases can affect many parts
of the body. These diseases tend to run in families.
Women - particularly African-American,
Hispanic-American, and Native-American women -
have a higher risk for some autoimmune diseases.
There are more than 80 types of autoimmune diseases,
and some have similar symptoms. This makes it hard
for your health care provider to know if you really have
one of these diseases, and if so, which one. Getting
diagnosed can be frustrating and stressful. In many
people, the first symptoms are being tired, muscle aches
and low fever.
The diseases may also have flare-ups, when they get
worse, and remissions, when they all but disappear. The
diseases do not usually go away, but symptoms can be
treated.
Your body's immune system protects you from disease
and infection. But if you have an autoimmune disease,
your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body
by mistake. Autoimmune diseases can affect many parts
of the body. These diseases tend to run in families.
Women - particularly African-American,
Hispanic-American, and Native-American women -
have a higher risk for some autoimmune diseases.
There are more than 80 types of autoimmune diseases,
and some have similar symptoms. This makes it hard
for your health care provider to know if you really have
one of these diseases, and if so, which one. Getting
diagnosed can be frustrating and stressful. In many
people, the first symptoms are being tired, muscle aches
and low fever.
The diseases may also have flare-ups, when they get
worse, and remissions, when they all but disappear. The
diseases do not usually go away, but symptoms can be
treated.
