Question 1

arthralgia symptoms after immune complex reaction. how soon does it end?

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Depends on cause: Serum sickness. Thiis is commonly seen after settings such as a reaction to a foreign antigen (drug, infection, etc) and once that antigen resolves the immune complex reaction subsites - time depends  can be days, weeks or months. But with a chronic setting where the antigen persists like in an autoimmune reaction in lupus, then the immune complexes persists and the condition continues.

Question 2

does one kind of doc specialize in treating "immune-complex diseases"?  do i have to bite the bullet and see many specialists due to its complexity?

Accepted Answer

Rheumatologist : Would be a good place to start, but depending on how many and how severely different organs are affected, I am afraid the answer is yes.

Question 3

how to improve immune sytem?

Accepted Answer

Some hard data: There are all sorts of people who will tell you all about pills and magic to help you resist disease. The best hard science is in the elderly. In 3 of 3 studies controlled prospective studies (the kind to take seriously), measuring real stuff like ability to mount antibody responses & immune cells, physical aerobic exercise was the one intervention that consistently produced results.

Question 4

what is considered immune condition?

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Many things: Immune conditions include defects in the function of the immune system either acquired or present from birth (agammaglobulinemia, hiv, cancers).  Immune system suppression due to drugs or chemicals (prednisone, cyclosprine, etc.), or immune stimulation due to immune system challenge ( autoimmune diseases, allergy).

Question 5

why doesn't our immune systems attack us?

Accepted Answer

Autoimmune disease: Your body's immune system protects you from disease and infection. But if you have an autoimmune disease, your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body by mistake. Autoimmune diseases can affect many parts of the body. These diseases tend to run in families. Women - particularly african-american, hispanic-american, and native-american women - have a higher risk for some autoimmune diseases.

Question 6

can you be immune to aids?

Accepted Answer

Maybe: Aids is the end result. It would be immunity to the HIV virus. There have been documented cases of hiv-resistant despite infected people. These are a small minority and it turns out that the majority of these discoveries have been on the african continent.

Question 7

what's an immune response?

Accepted Answer

Multiple layers: It is the body's response to attacks from foreign material.  The response is typically the production of igg, igm and IgA antibodies to fight infections. It is also making ige antibodies that are responsible for allergies. Immune response also includes white blood cells like neutrophils and blood proteins called complement.   It's a system with multiple layers and redundancies to protect the body.

Question 8

what is your immune system?

Accepted Answer

Immune system: Your Immune system is a general term for your body's ability to fight infections.  There are textbooks written on the subject as it is very complex but includes various body organs and blood cells to keep your body free from foreign invasions.

Question 9

what is auto immune disease?

Accepted Answer

: The basic answer is that the immune system reacts to some stimulus in a abnormal (auto-immune) way. An example is when the body has a strep throat a portion of the population will develop antibodies to strep (which is normal) but those antibodies attack the heart mitral valve or heart muscle causing damage (the abnormal or auto-immune part). That condition is known as Rheumatic fever,

Question 10

can i improve my immune system?

Accepted Answer

Good immune systems.: Eat a healthy diet. Get adequate sunshine, exercise and come from parents with good immune systems.

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