What is Addison's Disease, and is it hereditary?

I have it and it's not hereditary.

However there is a genetic disposition which makes you more likely to get autoimmune diseases in general, but this doesn't mean that you are guaranteed to develop an auto-immune disease or even Addison's disease (extremely small probability that you will develop it if someone in your family does)

And Addison's disease does not just mean that your adrenal glands stop producing cortisol, what happens is that you body starts producing antibodies against the adrenal cortex (outside of adrenal gland), which damages it and prevents it from producing any of the steroids that the cortex usually does, not just cortisol.

your adrenal glands aren't producing cortisol which is vital....
its not hereditary

its a hormonal disorder

Its when the adrenal glands don't produce the hormone Cortisol, I'm not sure if its hereditaty

Go to the MedlienPlus health topic page on Addison's DIsease at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/addis... to get accurate consumer health information on this disease.

See the Adam.com encyclopedia article at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/... to find out the causes of this autoimmune disease.

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