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Why are immunosuppressants good for some people if we need our immune system to fight off disease?

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Dr. Al Hegab answered

Specializes in Allergy and Immunology

Relative: immuno-suppression is resorted to when there is a "hyperactive " immune state leading to an auto-immune disease or condition, or to allow the immune system to adapt to a transplanted tissue, that doesn't mean that the immune system is totally knocked out (in some states yes during bone marrow transplant) but can still fight certain infections, till total recovery, the immune system is complex

Answered 5/24/2015

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