Phases of Disease and when stimulating the immune system is a bad thing

IHL

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Posted 2/20/2015 4:43 PM (GMT -5)

Phase 1- Acute
Phase 2- Chronic
Phase 3- Autoimmune

If your body is attacking your own tissue to get after the Lyme, then helping your immune system could make everything worse right? I did have some positive autoimmune markers. Maybe taking the cats claw and vitamin c....etc. all of the immune stimulants is just helping my body attack itself. I think when I feel better it's becuase my immune system is fatigued. And when I feel bad again it means that it's doing its job. Sometimes maybe a little too well.

Heathersdad

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Posted 2/20/2015 5:37 PM (GMT -5)

JHL,

I understand your logic and the potential problem of creating an even stronger autoimmune response. However I believe that problem can definitely be avoided with the proper treatment. Many physicians have altered an autoimmune response to one of a more normalized pathogen killing response with an informed intelligently applied treatment.

The immune system has more features to it than the issue of the the "strength" of the response. There is also the issue of the "intelligence" of the immune response. The reality of that distinction makes a huge difference!

Don

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