Neuron Research
Hello all!!!
The crooked pathology love & boiling feminophilia (love for womanhood) couldn’t stop me from writing this blog on “autoimmune disorders” and its female preponderance…
This is a late post though (as it was supposed to get published on woman’s day itself!) all thanks to the quarantine which was induced on us by my COVID positive husband….
So, with all the narration of the background let me begin my article…
Now, as you all the lady loves out there will agree, that most of the times “females” are unshakable when it comes to the outside world, but they are broken and diseased inside their own den (house)…
Yes!!! For a man there is a world outside home hence outside forces & diseases attack commonly to men but for a woman her home is her world and hence chance of her getting attacked from inside are more…
This exactly implies for the concept of autoimmunity too!!!
“The Hitlers Attack (Attack with lightning speed)/Mechanism”-
In autoimmune diseases, bodies self defence system (immune system; chief cells involved in the attack being T lymphocyte cells and CD4 cells) which is designed to target and kill the “foreign invaders” such as bacteria, viruses and other pathogens mistakes bodies own healthy cells and tissues as antigenic (like pathogens) & attacks them by releasing auto antibodies.
The key mechanism by which the immune attack takes place is “Molecular mimicry” in which a foreign antigen holds structural similarities as self-antigens. Molecular mimicry causes self-destructing attacks that can lead to an array of reactions to occur within the body ranging from minor to life-threatening.
In short, bodies own immunity works against its own healthy tissues and organs and breaks down the harmony of the body. This in complete, cause an autoimmune disease which is just not morbid but also has no cure….
Disease behaviour as human-
Doesn’t the discussion above sound just like a state of a women who are often attacked by their own loved ones for either being ambitious or just being stay at home material, for over pampering kids or not looking after them adequately! For being arrogant or just for keeping quiet!!!!
The agony being most of the times for no fault the woman in the family is sacrificed like bodies healthy tissues!
I think, the diseases too like humans show some behaviour traits and hence I guess out of all the patients suffering from autoimmune disorders 80% are females… In recent literature certain autoimmune diseases are reported to be exclusively of females…
And we all would be surprised to know that there are more than 100 autoimmune disorders in women which are not only difficult to treat but cause a compromised quality of life in them. Here’s a tabular condensation of the commoner ones which many of us or women known to us could even be suffering from-
| Name of the disease | Signs and Symptoms | Age of occurrence |
| Sjogren’s syndrome | chronic dry eyes and mouth | 40-60 |
| SLE | affecting the skin, joints, kidneys, and the brain | 15-55 |
| Rheumatoid arthritis | chronic inflammatory joint autoimmune disease that can immobilize fingers, wrists, feet, and ankle joints | 30-60 |
| Systemic sclerosis/ Multiple Scelrosis | skin and internal organs of patients due to a collagen defect. Blurred or double vision, red-green color distortion and even blindness in one eye multiple sclerosis can cause partial or total paralysis. | 20-50 |
| Graves’ disease and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. | Graves’ disease causes the thyroid to produce an excess of thyroid hormone (hyperthyroidism). causes bulging, puffy or inflamed eyes and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, often leads to an underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism). Both if untreated leads to serious health issues including thinning of bones to heart problems. | At the age of puberty |
| Psoriasis | This common condition causes skin cells to build up more rapidly than they normally would. symptoms can be mild (like a few spots of dandruff-like scales) to severe (major outbreaks covering large areas of skin) and can also cause thickened, ridged or pitted nails and sore joints. | 2 peaks of onset 20 to 30 years50 to 60 years |
| Type 1 diabetes | Auto antibodies against β cells of pancreas with no insulin production. All symptoms of diabetes are seen with unexplained weight loss, failure to thrive, miscarriages and infertility and overall poor quality of life if not treated. | Before 40 years Mostly in children |
These are just a few of them and my intention to brief these conditions in my blog is to make all my readers aware that if any one of us are showing any of these symptoms we need to seek medical help because earlier we diagnose ourselves the better is the prognosis of the disease because few autoimmune diseases manifest really at tender ages and may have very complicated outcomes….
Phew!!! So, I think that’s enough reading for today’s blog dose…
Many concepts on Auto immunity and womanity are still to come such as why women for auto immunity, Stress the silent killer, what is the way out, how to deal with situation when friends become foe’s etc….
Stay tuned for next blog (Auto womanity Part 2)!!!
Till then stay healthy and practice “Auto happiness”!
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