An autoimmune disease is a condition in which your own immune system attacks your body by mistake i.e. the healthy cells of your organs and tissues by releasing proteins called autoantibodies. In this state, your body's natural defense system can't tell the difference between your own cells and foreign cells.
ऑटोइम्यून रोग एक ऐसी स्थिति है जिसमें आपकी अपनी प्रतिरक्षा प्रणाली गलती से आपके शरीर पर हमला करती है, यानी आपके अंगों और ऊतकों की स्वस्थ कोशिकाएं autoantibodies प्रकार के प्रोटीन को छोड़ती हैं। इस अवस्था में, आपके शरीर की प्राकृतिक रक्षा प्रणाली आपकी अपनी कोशिकाओं और बाहरी कोशिकाओं के बीच अंतर नहीं बता सकती।
Around 4% of the global population suffers from one or more autoimmune diseases, out of which, 8.4 million (84 lakh) people were affected with type-1 diabetes (one of the most common autoimmune diseases) globally (as per the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, in 2021). This number is estimated to increase to 13.5–17.4 million people by 2040.
Taking about another chronic autoimmune condition, Psoriasis, it affects over 25 million (2.5 crore) patients in India, contributing to nearly 20% of the total global disease burden. Various studies suggest men are two times more likely to be affected by it than women.
I also have a type of Psoriasis called Plaque psoriasis. Plaque psoriasis is the most common type of psoriasis. It causes dry, raised skin patches (plaques) covered with scales (check below pics of mine).
It's not itchy for me. It just looks bad on my face, especially when I am unware that such flaking of skin is happening. In psoriasis, the life cycle of your skin cells greatly accelerates, leading to a buildup of dead cells on the surface of the epidermis.
Below is the video of the my polyautoimmunity journey.
Social inclusiveness for an autoimmune patient is pertinent. Even some of my blood-relatives who have seen me growing from my childhood tends to ask me -
"How come you are so allergic to gluten or soy now? You didn't had any issues earlier. You can little bit of gluten foods. Nothing will happen".
Then I usually try to explain them that my case is an autoimmune condition where my own immune cells attack my own body tissue if there are any particular trigger-factor like inflammatory protein, lower sleep duration etc. My body is not able to witstand all these trigger now at the age of 40. Unfortunately, they still don't understand the phenomenon of autoimmune disease like millions of people worldwide.
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