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Autoimmune Reaction & Neuropathy 

How it happens, what can be done

• Autoimmune reaction  - when the body attacks its own tissues. This occurs in Guillain-Barre syndrome, celiac disease, Crohn's Disease, Fibromyalgia, Grave's Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Inflammatory bowel disease, and many others. 
  
  
• Autoimmune disorders - Viral and bacterial infections can also cause indirect nerve damage by creating conditions referred to as autoimmune disorders. Autoimmune disorder is when specialized cells and antibodies of the immune system attack the body's own tissues. 

How does this become neuropathy?

The autoimmune attack where the body is attack its own tissue typically cause destruction of the nerve's myelin sheath or axon (the long fiber that extends out from the main nerve cell body). This destruction is nerve damage also called Neuropathy.

See Neuropathy for more information on this, the symptoms of neuropathy and what can be done to get relief.

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