Autoimmune Disease Doctors

Autoimmune disease doctors are from different specialties. The term Auto immune disease is a much generalized term with many different diseases coming under its purview.

All disease caused due to an altered immune response of the human body against its own cells are called as Auto immune diseases. This altered response may be due to a variety of reasons. The general common thread running through all of these diseases is that there is a genetic factor or hereditary predisposition.

The altered response can be manifested in different systems of the body. The manifestations are also categorized in to Organ specific and non organ specific diseases. The Organ specific diseases are the disorders which are confined to a certain organ or a certain system of the body.

The non organ specific Auto immune diseases are the more dangerous diseases, and these diseases are spread across various systems, affecting various different organs at the same time.

The commonest example of an organ specific Auto immune disease is the Hashimoto's thyroiditis. There are other examples as listed below:

Primary myxedema, Thyrotoxicosis, Pernicious anemia,

Auto immune Addison's disease, Type I Diabetes Mellitus, Good Pasteur's syndrome,

Myasthenia gravis, Sympathetic opthalmia, Auto immune hemolytic anemia, Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, Primary biliary cirrhosis, Chronic active hepatitis, Sjogren's syndrome

By looking at the list it is quite clear that, since the organ specific auto immune diseases affect different organs, the doctors treating them would also be different.

The Thyrotoxicosis, Auto immune Addison's disease, Sjogren's syndrome and Type I diabetes mellitus will be treated by an Endocrinologist, as they are all involved with hormone producing organs.

Good Pasteur's syndrome will be treated by a Nephrologist as it is a Kidney disorder.

Myasthenia Gravis, Auto immune hemolytic anemia and Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura will be treated by an Internal and General Medicine consultant as they are internal disease.

The sympathetic opthalmia will be treated by an Ophthalmologist as it is an eye disorder.

Rheumatoid Arthritis, Systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis and Dermato myositis are the non organ specific or the generalized Auto immune disorders.

The Rheumatoid arthritis will be taken care of by an Osteopath as it is a bone and joint disorder.

Systemic Lupus erythematosus will be treated by an Internal medicine specialist, a Cardiologist, a Neurologist, a Nephrologists and Gastroenterologist as it involves wide spread effects in all the different organs of the body like the Kidneys, GIT, CNS, CVS, etc

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