Naturopathic Treatments For Lupus
Lupus is an autoimmune disease where your immune system attacks many different systems in your body. This may include your heart, lungs, brain, kidneys, blood cells, joints, and skin.
Because so many of the symptoms of lupus are common with other disorders, it’s difficult to diagnose. But the most common symptom is a butterfly-shaped rash across both cheeks on your face.
However, each case of lupus is different. Depending on your individual case, you may experience:
- Fever
- Joint pain
- Stiffness and swelling
- Rashes
- Lesions sensitive to the Sun
- Chest pain
- Headaches
- Memory loss
- Dry eyes
- Shortness of breath
- Extremities that turn blue or white during periods of cold or stress
The exact cause of lupus is not exactly known, but if you’re already predisposed to the condition, it may be triggered by the right conditions. This includes sunlight, certain infections, or certain medications. As for risk factors, women between ages 15 and 45 of African, Hispanic, or Asian descent are at the highest risk.
If left untreated, complications from lupus can be deadly.
Currently, there is no known cure for lupus. However, naturopathic treatments may be effective in helping you manage your lupus symptoms to help you live a normal life.
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Naturopathic Treatments For Psoriasis
Psoriasis is an autoimmune skin condition where your skin cells multiply faster than they’re supposed to. New skin cells replace the old ones every 10-30 days, but with psoriasis they can replace themselves as quickly as every 3-4 days.
This can lead your skin to build up in thick, bumpy, scaly patches – called plaques.
It generally affects a small area of the body – most commonly the elbows, knees, scalp, or lower back – but in more extreme cases it can be found more widely across your body.
These plaques can be itchy, painful, and may crack and bleed. It can also affect your nails, causing them to be discoloured, pitted, or detach from your nail bed.
There are several types of psoriasis, including:
Guttate Psoriasis
Guttate psoriasis generally affects children or young adults. It causes small red spots to appear on the body, most commonly on arms, legs, and torso. It may be triggered by certain infections, skin injury, stress, and certain pharmaceutical drugs
Inverse Psoriasis
Inverse psoriasis causes shiny lesions, usually bright red in colour, to appear under the armpits or breasts, groin area, or other skin folds.
Pustular Psoriasis
With pustular psoriasis, the skin on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet will become red and scaly. Tiny pustules will form on them.
Erythrodermic Psoriasis
Erythrodermic psoriasis may be one of the most painful manifestations of this disorder. It causes fiery redness of your skin, and often leads to sheets of skin shedding off. Certain infections, pharmaceutical drugs, or severe sunburn may trigger erythrodermic psoriasis, and without treatment it can lead to serious illness.
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Is There A Cure For Psoriasis ?
Currently, no. However, there are naturopathic treatments which may help you manage your psoriasis symptoms.
In most cases, psoriasis is not considered life-threatening. However, the symptoms can be painful, uncomfortable, and frustrating to deal with.
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Naturopathic Treatments For Autoimmune Thyroid Conditions
Your thyroid is a delicate, butterfly-shaped gland that wraps itself around your windpipe. As an important part of your endocrine system, it plays a crucial role in regulating your body’s hormones.
While there are many conditions that affect the thyroid that aren’t related to the immune system, there are specific autoimmune-based thyroid conditions
Graves ’ Disease
Graves’ disease is one of the most common thyroid disorders leading to hyperthyroidism.
The hormones secreted by your thyroid control, among other things, your metabolism. Generally, your thyroid knows how much of these hormones to secrete based on the TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone) it receives. With Graves’ disease, your immune system produces antibodies that mimic TSH, which causes your thyroid to overproduce hormones, called hyperthyroidism.
Symptoms of Graves’ disease include:
- Weight loss
- Increased appetite
- Excessive sweating, especially in the palms
- Increased sensitivity to heat
- Bulging eyes (Graves’ opthalmopathy)
- Menstrual changes
- Nervousness or trembling
- High blood pressure or heart rate
- Anxiety
Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease where your immune system directly attacks your thyroid, affecting the thyroid’s ability to produce thyroid hormones. This often leads to hypothyroidism, an underperforming thyroid.
Many of the symptoms of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis are the opposite of Graves’ disease symptoms. They include:
- Weight gain
- Decreased appetite
- Chronic fatigue
- Constipation
- Sensitivity to cold
- Reproductive issues
- Hair loss
- Joint and muscle pain
- Slowed heart rate
- Low blood pressure
- Depression
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Treatments For Thyroid Disorders
There are currently no known cures for the thyroid disorders listed above. However, there are naturopathic treatments available which can help you address the root cause of your thyroid disorder. The goal is to bring your thyroid back into acceptable levels of hormone production, relieving your symptoms, and helping you live a normal, healthy life.
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