====__About Autoimmune Disorders__====

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::c::**Definition**
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These are illnesses that are caused by a person's own immune system attacking some part of the body - for example, the heart, kidneys, joints, or skin. Over time, the immune system permanently damages and disables the structure under attack, leading to chronic disease.

==About Autoimmune Disorders==
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Your symptoms are vague: fatigue, occasional tingling in arms or legs, aching muscles, a headache.

Are you sick, or imagining things? Doctors may dismiss people who report these symptoms as hypochondriacs, but the real diagnosis can be serious. These symptoms can signal a host of autoimmune diseases that develop gradually -- and strike women many times more often than men.

**What is Autoimmune Disease?**
Autoimmune Disease is a disorder that occurs because of autoimmunity - a disease that is caused by an immune response to the body of the patient himself or herself.

Autoimmune Diseases cover as many as 80 (maybe even more) different illnesses that affect the immune system. Many have been known to doctors for years, but it is only in recent times that they have been grouped together under the umbrella term 'Autoimmune Disease'.

**Which Autoimmune Disorders can lead to ostomies?**
The common ones are:
[[CrohnsDiseaseInfo Crohn's Disease]]
[[InterstitialCystitis Interstitial Cystitis]]
[[UlcerativeColitis Ulcerative Colitis]]

==Treatment==
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==Further Information==
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[[AutoimmuneDisordersExplainedArticles Autoimmune Disorders Explained Articles]]
[[http://www.autoimmunity.co.uk Autoimmunity - the Hidden Link]]

==Latest Research==
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[[AutoimmuneDisordersResearch Autoimmune Disorders Research]]
http://www.autoimmunity.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl

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