Has anyone heard of Autoimmune Disease in children..how serious is it?

my 2yr old neice has been diagnosed with Autoimmune Disease today. She has been ill for 6 weeks. Now that they finally know whats wrong we are worried that she might suffer side effects such and mental illness and skeletol disorder. Her personality seems different more quiet, walks with a limp which was not so before falling ill, has constant fever and lack of appetite.

Autoimmune disease is a class of diseases, do you know which disease that she has? Most autoimmune diseases cannot be cured. Find out which disease it is and then come and post here. You can also get help at www.immunesupport.com go to the forums there, they have different for different autoimmune diseases.

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is all I can do for you. There are many many types of autoimmune diseases and each has it's own symptoms, diagnoses, treatment and survivial rate.

Hopefully your neice will get better now that they have her diagnosed.

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