Autoimmune Disorders and Treatments
The immune system attacks healthy body parts and their functioning.
What are the types of autoimmune disorders?
Autoimmune diseases can affect any part of the body.
Joints, muscles, skin, or blood vessels.
The autoimmune condition consists of more than 100 types.
The common autoimmune diseases are –
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Psoriasis
- Type-1 diabetes
- Myasthenia gravis
What are the symptoms of autoimmune disorders?
- Extreme fatigue
- Joint pain
- Muscle pain
- Frequent fever
- Brain fog
- Skin rashes, scaly patches
- Bloating /stomach pain
- Weight gain/loss
- Dry eyes/dry mouth
Who is at risk of developing autoimmune disorders?
- People having viral infections.
- Women are prone to develop autoimmune disorder.
- Family history of autoimmune disorder.
- Exposure to chemicals /toxins
- Smoking tobacco
What are the medicines used in autoimmune disorders?
Pain killers – Simple analgesics are used to relieve pain and inflammation.
- Acetaminophen
- NSAIDs
- COX- inhibitors
Disease-Targeting drugs –
DMARDs, these reduce joint pain and inflammation.
These are used in rheumatoid arthritis /psoriatic arthritis.
- Methotrexate
- Tofacitinib
Corticosteroids –
These are widely used to prevent immune flare.
These relax and calm down the immune response.
They reduce the swelling /pain or the inflammation.
Immunosuppressant –
These drugs work by lowering the white cells.
They suppress immune cell formation.
It calms down the immune activity (overactivity).
- Mycophenolate mofetil
- Azathioprine
What is the cure for autoimmune disease?
Autoimmune diseases do not have a cure.
They can be managed.
The drugs can offer long-term disease-free remission.
The targeted therapies or the biologics.
What is the treatment goal for autoimmune disease?
The treatment is focused on achieving 3 results-
- Achieving Remission-
The symptoms of the disease are completely suppressed.
The inflammation disappears to zero.
- Reversing Immune Malfunction-
It is the reprogramming of the immune system.
It is a novel method of treatment.
- Managing the prognosis-
It is targeting the disease and managing the symptoms.
Type-1 diabetes, Arthritis are managed through targeted drugs.
Common side effects that occur while treating auto-immune disorder –
The treatment focuses on lowering the immune activity.
This significantly suppresses the immune system.
- Increased risk of infections.
- Lowered WBC count
- Anemia
- organ toxicity
- Bone loss
- Blood pressure spikes
Why is Aprazer Healthcare the leading contract pharmaceutical manufacturer?
Aprazer Healthcare is a pharmaceutical manufacturer.
We are a globally recognized brand.
We lead in third party drug manufacturing.
Global drug exporters lay the trust in us, supplying world-class solutions.
Our pharmaceutical dossier consists of export ready products.
- Immunosuppressive agents
- Corticosteroids
- Rheumatology drugs
