I wish. My kids are coeliac i.e., the presence of gluten in food causes the body to attack its own gut.
I’d love if there were a vaccine that they could take once, or even every several months that would let them eat what they wanted. It would have to be something that either turns off the errant immune response altogether or teaches the body to tolerate / ignore gluten proteins.
hackitfast@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Does anyone know yet if long COVID is an auto-immune disease? I only assume it is but otherwise don’t know.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
It seems like a mix. Part from organ damage, part from misbehaving immune response in some people
nickhammes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I just found a paper in trying to figure this out, but it seems like the author of this study wasn’t really looking at it as an autoimmune disease, but a post-viral syndrome like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) which is partially immunological, but not autoimmune. ME/CFS has been known about a lot longer than long COVID, and seems to be better (if not yet well) understood.
Reading though a lot of the sites with information on ME/CFS, it makes intuitive sense that long COVID has more in common with it than something like rheumatoid arthritis. I hope that long COVID brings attention to ME/CFS, or in studying similar diseases we’re able to learn more about their common causes/treatments, or generally understand both better.
psud@lemmy.world 8 months ago
COVID is a virus, so not an autoimmune illness. Long COVID mighty be partly autoimmune
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
All I heard overpandemic was that COVID was triggering diabetes in people which makes sense because we don’t know what triggers diabetes but one of the theories is it’s caused by viral stress.
I bet any money they will one day find a genetic mutation like the one in BRCA2 that causes cancer.