Do autoimmune diseases suppress the immune system?

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Do they? Or is it the drugs you take for autoimmune diseases that suppress the immune system? Can long term stress or autoimmune diseases suppress the immune system and affect test results, such as HIV, and cause false negatives or positives after about 7 months or so? If you're under a great deal of stress for a long time, or have an autoimmune disease, does it take longer for your body to produce antibodies against diseases, like HIV? Will 7 months have been long enough of a time to wait before getting tested for HIV? Especially since you're not sexually active or do drugs?

Thanks!
Wow - you've quite a few questions there.

Autoimmune diseases can reduce your immune system's effectiveness, yes. However, diseases like Lupus cause the immune system to attack the body, in which case drugs are perscribed to subdue the immune system. Stress does indeed affect your body's immunity in a negative capacity.

Seven months, though? That's a long time for the body to recover its immune defense. Dealing with HIV is something best, perhaps, reserved for medical professionals. There are hosts of checks and tests that can give you definitive answers to your questions much better than the internet can.  (+ info)

What Is The Malfunction Of The Endocrine System That Causes Diabetes?

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What Is The Malfunction Of The Endocrine System That Causes Diabetes?
Type 1 Diabetes: Person is insulin dependent because the beta cells in the pancreas do not produce insulin.This would be referred to as autoimmunity because the body destroy's it's own beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. Insulin is of course a hormone that helps glucose get into the cells to give them energy.

Type 2 Diabetes: Person is non-insulin dependent, which means that the beta cells in the pancreas do produce insulin but either do not produce enough insulin or the cells are resistent to the insulin that it makes.  (+ info)

What are 10 diseases and disorders that can effect the muscular system?

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We are working on a body systems project and we must know the diseases and disorders of the muscular system, please tell us the facts, and if possible good websites that will help us in the future requiring the body systems.
www.webmd.com go to the part that says "check my symptoms" or something like that then just click on any symptom involving muscles and it will tell you the most likely cause  (+ info)

what are two reactions between your body and endocrine system when you are scared?

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what are two reactions between your body and endocrine system when you are scared?
Body chemicals definitely set to new values when one is scared.  (+ info)

What are 3 diseases associated with the immune system?

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I know AIDS and Leukemia are two immune diseases or disorders (i'm sot sure what the proper word here is) but any other diseases would be helpful.
Off the top of my head, I can think of a few autoimmune diseases such as Crohn's disease (attacks the gut), Multiple Sclerosis (affects the central nervous system), lupus (affects multiple organs), rheumatoid arthritis (primarily affects joints).

Allergies and asthma are also disorders associated with the immune system.

HIV progresses to AIDS.  (+ info)

What are some rare disorders and diseases of the digestive system?

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I'm doing a project for Anatomy and I was just thinking maybe someone on here would know about a rare disease of the digestive system.
I have a damaged para-sympathetic nervous system that is causing massive disgestive system problems...the doctors don't really have a clue whats going on...just that i cant take anti-cholinegeric compounds like buscapan or most laxatives...also it gives me something similar to hypnogognic jerks when i relax  (+ info)

Are there any diseases that affects the whole digestive system ?

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Well if there are any disease that affects the whole digestive system , please tell me, and if not , at least tell me if there are any diseases that affects more than 4 organs in the digestive system. =]


thanks =]
LOL guys, i don't have any disease , specially this is a response to the first question -.-, this is actually a report =P
inflammatory bowel disease affects the whole digestive tract. It can be Crohn's disease(affects anywhere from the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestines, large intestines, anus, & rectum. UC affects only the large colon, rectum, & anus.

The medications used to treat these illnesses have side effects that do affect the pancreas, liver, gallbladder, and even blood count. That is why it is so very important to keep MD appts., have the required blood tests, etc. to make sure that the organs are not affected.  (+ info)

How do diseases of the Nervous System interrupt homeostasis?

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could you please give an example of a nervous system disease & how it interferes with the system's job/ homeostasis
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What are some Chronic diseases in the Reproductive System?

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I have to do an entire report on the Reproductive system. I already have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, AIDS, Gonorrhea, Herpes, and Chlamydia.

I also have to find mysteries on it, and some metaphors.
aids,hiv,karposki's syndrome?,apthous ulcers,human papiloma virus,herpes zoster,herpes simplex,trichomoniasis,crabs,  (+ info)

What are types of nervous system diseases?

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Would Alzheimer's be a type of disease in the nervous system?
If not, what are some?



Easy 10 points, for good answers.

Thanksssss.
Yep, Alzheimer's sure is.
Some other ones are down syndrome, narcolepsy, parkinson disease, west nile fever, etc.  (+ info)

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