Autoimmune thyroiditis is very different from other diseases that we will touch on in this book. Firstly, such patients are observed by endocrinologists, not rheumatologists. Secondly, in this disease, drugs that suppress the aggression of the immune system (prednisone and immunosuppressants) are not used at…
Sometimes even a full and comprehensive examination does not reveal the cause of poor health, and then it comes to a “difficult” diagnosis. If you find yourself in a similar situation, do not despair, let’s discuss how to act in such cases. As a rule,…
Our immune system is very complex. In simple terms, the immune system is innate and acquired (adaptive). Initially, at birth, our body has some basic settings to fight against numerous infections of the surrounding world. It is this part of the immune system (innate immunity)…
Autoimmune disease is a condition where the immune system is aggressively set up against its own organs and tissues, while in the blood there are special protein compounds – autoantibodies, which, like a targeted bombardment, selectively attack only certain structures of our tissues, causing damage…
“And the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer Unto Ashdod… And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the azotans, and he smote them, and punished them with painful growths, in Azot and in its vicinity. And the azotans…
“She is still alive today, tomorrow is not” — in his famous and unfinished poem dedicated to the” dreary time”, Alexander Pushkin compares autumn to a” consumptive maiden”, condemned to death. Consumption, or, in scientific terms, tuberculosis, was the scourge of the old “pre-antibiotic” times.…