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What conditions are classed as an Autoimmune Disease?

More and more conditions nowadays are being linked to an immune system dysfunction, more specifically where the immune system attacks it’s host, us! Known as autoimmune conditions, this happens the immune system has mistaken part of the body as a foreign invader and attacks it as it tries to defend us. However, this can have very serious consequences for our health. If it attacks the thyroid we develop Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, our joints we get rheumatoid arthritis, our skin we get psoriasis or gut and we get ulcerative colitis. These are just the tip of the iceberg though, look below to find what other problems are believed to be autoimmune in origin, it might surprise you…

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis

Addison’s disease

Alopecia areata

Ankylosing spondylitis

Anti-Glomerular basement membrane nephritis

Antiphospholipid syndrome

Autoimmune angioedema

Autoimmune hepatitis

Autoimmune inner ear disease

Autoimmune oophoritis

Autoimmune pancreatitis

Autoimmune retinopathy

Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura

Autoimmune thyroiditis

Autoimmune urticaria

Balo disease

Behçet’s disease

Bullous pemphigoid

Coeliac disease

Chronic fatigue syndrome

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy

Churg-Strauss syndrome

Cicatricial pemphigoid

Cogan syndrome

Cold agglutinin disease

CREST syndrome

Crohn’s disease

Dermatitis herpetiformis

Dermatomyositis

Diabetes mellitus type 1

Discoid lupus erythematosus

Endometriosis

Eosinophilic esophagitis

Eosinophilic fasciitis

Erythema nodosum

Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia

Evans syndrome

Fibromyalgia

Giant cell arteritis

Goodpasture syndrome

Graves’ disease

Guillain–Barré syndrome

Hashimoto’s Encephalopathy

Hashimoto Thyroiditis

Henoch-Schonlein purpura

IgA nephropathy

IgG4-related systemic disease

Inclusion body myositis

Inflamatory bowel disease

Interstitial cystitis

Juvenile arthritis

Kawasaki’s disease

Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome

Leukocytoclastic vasculitis

Lichen planus

Lichen sclerosus

Ligneous conjunctivitis

Linear IgA disease

Lyme disease (Chronic)

Ménière’s disease

Microscopic polyangiitis

Mixed connective tissue disease

Mooren’s ulcer

Mucha-Habermann disease

Multiple sclerosis

Myasthenia gravis

Myositis

Neuromyelitis optica

Optic neuritis

Palindromic rheumatism

Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration

Parry Romberg syndrome

Parsonage-Turner syndrome

Pemphigus vulgaris

Pernicious anaemia

POEMS syndrome

Polyarteritis nodosa

Polymyalgia rheumatica

Polymyositis

Postmyocardial infarction syndrome

Postpericardiotomy syndrome

Primary biliary cirrhosis

Primary sclerosing cholangitis

Psoriasis

Psoriatic arthritis

Pure red cell aplasia

Pyoderma gangrenosum

Raynaud’s phenomenon

Reactive arthritis

Relapsing polychondritis

Restless leg syndrome

Retroperitoneal fibrosis

Rheumatic fever

Rheumatoid arthritis

Sarcoidosis

Scleroderma

Sjogren’s syndrome

Stiff person syndrome

Subacute bacterial endocarditis

Susac’s syndrome

Sympathetic ophthalmia

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Tolosa-Hunt syndrome

Transverse myelitis

Ulcerative colitis

Vasculitis

Vitiligo

If you have one of these, or know someone who does, there is a lot that you can do with diet and exercise to help relieve your symptoms and sometimes, even put them into full remission. If you’d like to find out more feel free to contact us on 01337 858433, book an appointment directly here or buy the book  ‘Eating My Way Back to Health’.