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July is Dry Eye Awareness Month. Blink two times if you happen to’re studying this. How do your sights really feel? Are they annoyed? Do you are feeling like you will have grains of sand on your sights however you’re nowhere akin the seaside? Do you will have an autoimmune disease? That latter query would […]
As told to Marnie Goodfriend I’ve always been a thrill seeker. At age 22, I wanted to experience life to the fullest, and I enjoyed snowboarding, traveling — and even bungee jumping. I was healthy and had never had anything more than a cold until I started experiencing extreme fatigue, joint pain, and swelling in […]
Did you know that women are more likely to have an autoimmune disease than men? As many as 4 out of 5 people with an autoimmune disease are women. What is an autoimmune disease? An autoimmune disease develops when the body’s immune system attacks its own healthy cells, organs or tissues. Autoimmune diseases can affect […]
Niranjana Parthasarathi, M.D., started experiencing extreme fatigue and joint pain in her 20s. Within months, she was diagnosed with lupus. “As a medical student, I knew how serious it could be,” she said, recalling how one of her peers had tragically passed away from complications of the autoimmune disease during her internship. Parthasarathi went on […]
Sjögren’s (pronounced show-grins) disease is an autoimmune condition that affects the moisture-making glands in the body. The disease can affect the eyes, mouth, nasal passages — even the vagina — and cause extreme dryness and chronic pain among other life-altering symptoms. Unfortunately, it can take years to get a diagnosis for Sjögren’s in part because […]