Can Autoimmune Diseases be Cured? Treatments and Natural Approaches

KOMPAS.com – Autoimmune diseases occur when the body’s immune system accidentally attacks your body.

Quoting the Cleveland Clinic, the body’s immune system is a group of organs and cells that function normally to protect the body from bacteria, parasites, viruses and cancer cells.

Also read: 10 Most Common Types of Autoimmune Diseases and Their Symptoms

Autoimmune diseases can affect many types of tissue and almost every organ in your body.

There are more than 100 known autoimmune diseases. For example, type 1 diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, or psoriasis.

This next article will briefly review whether this disease can be cured?

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Can autoimmune diseases be cured?

Quoted from Well Theory, autoimmune diseases cannot be cured, but available treatments can relieve the symptoms.

However, autoimmune diseases can be treated with natural approaches, the symptoms can be relieved, the sufferer’s quality of life improves, and there is the potential for disease remission.

Disease remission is a condition where the symptoms of the disease appear only slightly or even not at all.

As according to the Cleveland Clinic, there are some cases where the patient’s autoimmune disease disappears.

However, most cases of this disease are chronic, which means they last a long time, even for life.

Even though they are chronic, many people with autoimmune diseases can live a normal life by getting treatment to treat the symptoms.

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How to treat autoimmune diseases?

According to the Cleveland Clinic, treatment of autoimmune diseases is unique because each person can adapt differently to the condition of the body’s immune system, genetics and the patient’s environment.

Quoting Better Health, autoimmune disease treatments used can include:

• Anti-inflammatory drugs, which are used to reduce inflammation and pain
• Corticosteroids, used to reduce inflammation. Sometimes used to treat acute symptoms.
• Pain relievers, such as paracetamol and codeine
• Immunosuppressant drugs, which aim to inhibit the activity of the immune system
• Physical therapy, which is done to encourage mobility
• Treatment for deficiencies, for example, insulin injections in cases of diabetes
• Surgery, for example to treat intestinal blockages in cases of Crohn’s disease
• High-dose immunosuppression, performed with the use of immune system-suppressing drugs (in doses necessary to treat cancer or to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) has been tried recently, and yielded promising results. Especially if intervention is carried out early, the chance of curing some of these conditions seems possible.

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Meanwhile, ways to treat autoimmune diseases with a natural approach as intended by Well Theory include the following:

• Manage your diet optimally, because your diet may have a direct impact on the development of autoimmune diseases.
• Improves gut health, as compromised gut health is believed to play an important role in many autoimmune conditions. An imbalance in the gut microbiota can trigger autoimmunity.
• Improve sleep quality, because poor sleep quality can trigger autoimmunity by encouraging the breakdown of immune system tolerance and suppression of T-regulatory cells, immune cells that normally prevent the immune system from attacking the body by mistake.
• Manage stress, because physical, mental or emotional stress greatly influences the development of autoimmune diseases.
• Exercise, because it offers many health benefits for everyone, including possibly providing some unique benefits for people with autoimmune diseases.

Sufferers of autoimmune diseases need to consult with an expert doctor to get the most appropriate course of treatment according to their condition.

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2023-12-26 23:00:00
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