AN OVERVIEW
ON AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
By
Dr Rahees K Kokkallur
All wars
are against Humanity. If a war started in human body it is called autoimmune
diseases. The Body has its own Immune system to fight against the germs,
pathogens and organisms that attack body. But what will occur when this immune
system, that is the soldiers of Human body attack tissues and cells?,
autoimmune disease is such a state. Auto
immune diseases are first identified by a Japanese researcher Hashimoto Hakaru.
He found the autoimmune nature of thyroiditis and it is called as Hashimoto
thyroiditis. The latest studies are shown that many diseases which have called
as unknown etiology, has a connection with autoimmune mechanism. Many
researchers close their research work with adding a new disease to the list of
autoimmune diseases!
