Symptoms of Autoimmune Diseases
Vary by type of disease. Most agree some symptoms such as tiredness and fatigue, chronic ill feeling any pain. Many patients also feel a sense of helplessness and despair to have some kind of disease that the doctor and advised that it is chronic and without hope of cure.
Normally there is often only treatment for the symptoms remit and avoid complications. What also often despair to patients is that most drugs for autoimmune diseases in turn have side effects that are slowly deteriorating quality of life. Sometimes some patients begin to develop at the same time, other autoimmune diseases.
The “strategy” usual naturopathy aims to improve overall quality of life of these patients. If our body (body and mind) is in harmony is more likely that our immune system will too.
Diet and Immune System
If eating well is essential for good health in these cases is even more important. The first thing is to try to eliminate from your diet all foods and products with chemical additives. This is to avoid substances that may affect our immune system. Within food also try to eliminate those that can produce an allergy especially cow’s milk and dairy in general. Others note that better (or worse) to let other foods (soy or soybeans, coffee, orange, pepper, eggplant, etc.).
We must learn to listen to our bodies a little more. It would not hurt to try to find a specialist that we recommend a diet according to our blood group, according to Chinese medicine or Ayurvedic medicine under. It is, as always, to individualize each case. In general antioxidant foods (fruits and vegetables) are the ones that have to prevail while saturated fats should be reduced to the maximum.
Nutritional Supplements, herbal or medicinal plants
If the patient is a very unbalanced diet for years may be desirable multivitamin tailored to your particular association (with or without iodine, etc..) Within the food we have some that are in themselves multivitamins (pollen, royal jelly, yeast beer, etc.).
Lactobacilli or supplements “intestinal flora” may be interesting in cases of autoimmune diseases when there is a long history of use of antibiotics, laxatives, etc. Remember that balance is essential in intestinal absorption and elimination processes. That will always favor the intestinal mucosa is less permeable and can help reduce allergic tendencies and as herbal medicine may help the immune system is less altered.
In each of the specific autoimmune diseases will require a contribution of nutritional supplements and herbs or herbal preparations concrete.
credit to: Josep Vicent Arnau
