{"id":565,"date":"2019-05-02T11:29:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T11:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.affordableacupunctureguildford.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2019-05-02T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T11:34:40","slug":"autoimmune-diseases-and-acupuncture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.affordableacupunctureguildford.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/02\/autoimmune-diseases-and-acupuncture\/","title":{"rendered":"Autoimmune Diseases and Acupuncture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is Autoimmune disease?<\/strong>
Autoimmune diseases are when our immune system mistakenly attacks us. We have found that acupuncture can often help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most common Autoimmune diseases<\/strong>
Alopecia
Colitis
Celiac diseases
Crohn\u2019s disease
Diabetes (type 1)
Ehlers-Danios syndrome
Fibromyalgia
Grave\u2019s disease (overactive thyroid)
Guillian-Barre syndrome
Hashimoto\u2019s thyroiditis
Hypermobility
Immflamatory bowel disease
Lupus Erythematosus
Multiple sclerosis
Pernicious anaemia
Psoriasis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sjogren\u2019s Syndrome
Vitiligo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are about 80 types of Autoimmune disease and many have similar symptoms. It is possible to have more than one at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What it does to us<\/strong>
Our immune system attacks one bit of us, like the small intestine in Crohne\u2019s disease, or all over. The attacks can come and go for no obvious reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who gets Autoimmune Diseases<\/strong>
Anyone can. They can start in childhood, or often when we are adults. They often run in the family. 75% of those affected are women. It can also be started or made worse by things like bacteria, a virus, chemicals, environmental irritants, or drugs. The drugs can have a lot of side effects, and affect you long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visiting Your Doctor<\/strong>
Your doctor might have struggled to diagnose you. There are no easy tests for some autoimmune diseases. Doctors also struggle to treat or cure most of them. Your doctor will try and help your symptoms with drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Acupuncture for Autoimmune diseases<\/strong>
In our Acupuncture clinic in Guildford, Surrey, England, we have found Autoimmune diseases to often be helped a lot by acupuncture. Acupuncture seems to help body to stop fighting itself. Acupuncture also seems to help our immune system re-balance if it is too high or too low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immune Systems Out of Balance<\/strong>
Our Immune system are affected by everything we do, eg stress, poor sleep, over or under-exercising, or how we work. Low activity or immune deficiency decreases the body\u2019s ability to fight infections. Over activity can lead to body attacking and damaging it\u2019s own healthy tissue. This is where acupuncture plus lifestyle changes can really help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diet and Lifestyle<\/strong>
We often give advice about diet and life style and dietary advice and find this can really help. For example, giving up all grains helps a lot of people, sometimes dramatically, as can giving up gluten, sugar and dairy produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is Autoimmune disease? Autoimmune diseases are when our immune system mistakenly attacks us. We have found that acupuncture can often help. The most common Autoimmune diseases Alopecia Colitis Celiac diseases Crohn\u2019s disease Diabetes (type 1) Ehlers-Danios syndrome Fibromyalgia Grave\u2019s disease (overactive thyroid) Guillian-Barre syndrome Hashimoto\u2019s thyroiditis Hypermobility Immflamatory bowel disease Lupus Erythematosus Multiple sclerosis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.affordableacupunctureguildford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.affordableacupunctureguildford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.affordableacupunctureguildford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.affordableacupunctureguildford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.affordableacupunctureguildford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.affordableacupunctureguildford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/www.affordableacupunctureguildford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.affordableacupunctureguildford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.affordableacupunctureguildford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.affordableacupunctureguildford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}