Is diabetes an autoimmune disease ?No. Autoimmune is when your own system attacks itself and destroys tissue. Diabetes is the lack of insulin or the resistance of the body to use it properly. No, an autoimmune disease is where the body attacks itself usually using the white blood cells. Some examples are lupas, addison's disease, multiple sclerosis, optic neuritis, polyarthritis, wegener's granulomatosis, and Guilain- Barre Syndrome or GBS.
Diabetes Mellitus is an autoimmune disease because when it is characterized by a deficiency or absence of insulin production (Type I), is often the consequence of an autoimmune attack on the insulin-producing beta cells in the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas. No. Diabetes is about the body's ability to recognize and process insulin. It's called the 'thirst disease'. What most people don't know is that for every molecule of insulin, your body needs 400 molecules of water to even recognize it. So even if your body produces insulin on its own, your body may not be processing it or recognizing it. type one diabetes is very much an autoimmune disease.
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A comprehensive list of autoimmune diseases
Acute necrotizing hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis
Addison?s disease
Agammaglobulinemia
Allergic asthma
Allergic rhinitis
Alopecia areata
Amyloidosis
Ankylosing spondylitis
Anti-GBM/Anti-TBM nephritis
Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)
Autoimmune aplastic anemia
Autoimmune dysautonomia
Autoimmune hepatitis
Autoimmune hyperlipidemia
Autoimmune immunodeficiency
Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED)
Autoimmune myocarditis
Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura (ATP)
Axonal & neuronal neuropathies
Bal? disease
Beh?et?s disease
Bullous pemphigoid
Cardiomyopathy
Castleman disease
Celiac sprue (nontropical)
Chagas? disease
Chronic fatigue syndrome**
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
Churg-Strauss syndrome
Cicatricial pemphigoid/benign mucosal pemphigoid
Crohn?s disease
Cogan?s syndrome
Cold agglutinin disease
Congenital heart block
Coxsackie myocarditis
CREST disease
Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia
Demyelinating neuropathies
Dermatomyositis
Devic disease
Discoid lupus
Dressler?s syndrome
Endometriosis
Eosinophilic fasciitis
Erythema nodosum
Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis
Evan?s syndrome
Fibromyalgia**
Fibrosing alveolitis
Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis)
Goodpasture?s syndrome
Graves? disease
Guillain-Barr? syndrome
Hashimoto?s disease
Hemolytic anemia
Henoch-Schonlein purpura
Herpes gestationis
Hypogammaglobulinemia
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
IgA nephropathy
Immunoregulatory lipoproteins
Inclusion body myositis
Insulin-dependent diabetes (type1)
Interstitial cystitis
Juvenile arthritis
Juvenile diabetes
Kawasaki syndrome
Lambert-Eaton syndrome
Leukocytoclastic vasculitis
Lichen planus
Lichen sclerosus
Ligneous conjunctivitis
Linear IgA disease (LAD)
Lupus (SLE)
Lyme disease
Meniere?s disease
Microscopic polyangiitis
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)
Mooren?s ulcer
Mucha-Habermann disease
Multiple sclerosis
Myasthenia gravis
Myositis
Narcolepsy
Neutropenia
Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid
Osteoarthritis
Palindromic rheumatism
Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
Parsonnage-Turner syndrome
Pars planitis (peripheral uveitis)
Pemphigus
Peripheral neuropathy
Perivenous encephalomyelitis
Pernicious anemia
POEMS syndrome
Polyarteritis nodosa
Type I, II, & III autoimmune polyglandular syndromes
Polymyalgia rheumatica
Polymyositis
Postmyocardial infarction syndrome
Postpericardiotomy syndrome
Progesterone dermatitis
Primary biliary cirrhosis
Psoriasis
Psoriatic arthritis
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Pyoderma gangrenosum
Pure red cell aplasia
Raynaud?s phenomenon
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Reiter?s syndrome
Relapsing polychondritis
Restless legs syndrome
Rheumatic fever
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sarcoidosis
Schmidt syndrome
Scleritis
Scleroderma
Sj?gren?s syndrome
Sperm & testicular autoimmunity
Stiff person syndrome
Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE)
Sympathetic ophthalmia
Takayasu?s arteritis
Temporal arteritis/Giant cell arteritis
Thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
Autoimmune thyroid disease
Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
Transverse myelitis & necrotizing myelopathy
Ulcerative colitis
Undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD)
Uveitis
Vasculitis
Vesiculobullous dermatosis
Vitiligo
Wegener?s granulomatosis
**NOTE Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue are listed, not because they are autoimmune, but because many persons who suffer from them have associated autoimmune disease(s)
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Type 1 Yes
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease results when the body鈥檚 system for fighting infection (the immune system) turns against a part of the body. In diabetes, the immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. The pancreas then produces little or no insulin. A person who has type 1 diabetes must take insulin daily to live.
At present, scientists do not know exactly what causes the body鈥檚 immune system to attack the beta cells, but they believe that autoimmune, genetic, and environmental factors, possibly viruses, are involved. Type 1 diabetes accounts for about 5 to 10 percent of diagnosed diabetes in the United States. It develops most often in children and young adults but can appear at any age.
Symptoms of type 1 diabetes usually develop over a short period, although beta cell destruction can begin years earlier. Symptoms may include increased thirst and urination, constant hunger, weight loss, blurred vision, and extreme fatigue. If not diagnosed and treated with insulin, a person with type 1 diabetes can lapse into a life-threatening diabetic coma, also known as diabetic ketoacidosis.
The most common form of diabetes is type 2 diabetes. About 90 to 95 percent of people with diabetes have type 2. This form of diabetes is most often associated with older age, obesity, family history of diabetes, previous history of gestational diabetes, physical inactivity, and certain ethnicities. About 80 percent of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight.
Type 2 diabetes is increasingly being diagnosed in children and adolescents. However, nationally representative data on prevalence of type 2 diabetes in youth are not available.
When type 2 diabetes is diagnosed, the pancreas is usually producing enough insulin, but for unknown reasons the body cannot use the insulin effectively, a condition called insulin resistance. After several years, insulin production decreases. The result is the same as for type 1 diabetes鈥攇lucose builds up in the blood and the body cannot make efficient use of its main source of fuel.
The symptoms of type 2 diabetes develop gradually. Their onset is not as sudden as in type 1 diabetes. Symptoms may include fatigue, frequent urination, increased thirst and hunger, weight loss, blurred vision, and slow healing of wounds or sores. Some people have no symptoms. Yes, Type 1 Diabetes is. noo dummy autoimmune attaks its self
it has to to with a defect in your pancreas YES ! Both type 1 and 2 are autoimmune diseases. I have a couple of autoimmune diseases, so this topic is of interest to me.
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