Sentences with phrase «overactive immune system attacks»

Lupus is a systemic, autoimmune disease where an overactive immune system attacks healthy joints and organs.

This makes prednisone an effective treatment option for autoimmune diseases, which are caused by an overactive immune system attacking different systems and organs in the body.

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When the immune system is overactive and starts attacking the body's own tissues, it leads to autoimmune disease.

The important point to understand is that it's an autoimmune disease, meaning the immune system is overactive and mistakes its own tissue for perceived pathogens, causing the body to attack itself.

The body's immune system (t - cells, b cell antibodies) mounts an attack on thyroid tissue, but the thyroid proteins are not the enemy — it's an overactive immune system that is misfiring (due to any number of reasons, usually gut - related) that causes the attack, destroying thyroid tissue.

She learns that the disease is not the fault of her thyroid, but rather her immune system is overactive and has starting misfiring and attacking her thyroid tissue.

However with no bacteria lodged in pores to attack, an overactive immune system will have less chance to create acne anyway.