List of Confirmed Autoimmune, Suspected Autoimmune, and Autoimmune-Related Conditions
The following list represents illnesses that can be largely influenced by diet and lifestyle modifications.
Of the tens of millions of people diagnosed with one of these conditions in the US alone, very few are told it is autoimmune in nature or origin. Possibly because doctors don’t know, or more likely because doctors are unaware that anything can be done about it beyond prescriptions of steroids, pain pills or other medication. Quite a bit more complicated – but similar to cardiovascular disease, obesity and type 2 diabetes – autoimmune originated disorders can mostly be prevented, halted and sometimes put fully into remission simply through nutrition and lifestyle practices.
Knowing this can be profoundly beneficial in working towards healing your body and not just mitigating symptoms. We want to put out the fire, not take the batteries out of the smoke detector.
• Achalatia
• Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM)
• Acute necrotizing hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis (AHL)
• Addison’s disease
• Adult Still’s diseases
• Agammaglobulinemia
• Alopecia areata (AA)
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Amyloidosis
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS; Lou Gehrig’s disease)
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Anti-GBM/Anti-TBM nephritis
• Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)
• Autism
• Autoimmune angioedema
• Autoimmune aplastic anemia
• Autoimmune dysautonomia
• Autoimmune encephalomyelitis
• Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA)
• Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH)
• Autoimmune hyperlipidemia (AIH)
• Autoimmune immunodeficiency
• Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED)
• Autoimmune myocarditis
• Autoimmune oophoritis
• Autoimmune orchitis
• Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP)
• Autoimmune retinopathy (AIR)
• Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura (ATP)
• Autoimmune urticaria
• Axonal and neuronal neuropathies
• Baló disease
• Behcet’s disease
• Bullous pemphigoid
• Castleman’s disease (CD)
• Celiac disease
• Chagas disease
• Chronic fatigue syndrome
• Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO)
• Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) (aka Eosinophilic granulomatosis (EGPA))
• Cicatricial pemphigoid/benign mucosal pemphigoid (MMP)
• Cogan’s syndrome
• Cold agglutinin disease
• Congenital heart block
• Coxsackie myocarditis
• CREST syndrome
• Crohn’s disease
• Dementia
• Dercum’s disease (aka Adiposis dolorosa)
• Dermatitis herpetiformis (DH)
• Dermatomyositis (DM)
• Devic’s disease/neuromyelitis optica (NMO)
• Endometriosis
• Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE)
• Eosinophilic fasciitis (EF)
• Epilepsy
• Discoid lupus
• Dressler’s syndrome
• Erythema nodosum (EN)
• Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia
• Evans syndrome
• Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (AEA)
• Fibromyalgia
• Fibrosing alveolitis
• Giant cell arteritis/temporal arteritis (GCA)
• Giant cell myocarditis
• Glomerulonephritis
• Gluten sensitivity
• Goodpasture syndrome
• Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) (formerly called Wegener’s granulomatosis)
• Graves’ disease
• Guillain-Barré (GBS)
• Inclusion body myositis (IBM)
• Interstitial cystitis (IC)
• Hashimoto’s encephalopathy (HE)
• Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
• Hemolytic anemia
• Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP)
• Herpes gestationis or pemphigoid gestationis (PG)
• Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) (aka acne inversa)
• Hypogammaglobulinemia
• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
• Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
• IgA nephropathy
• IgG4-related sclerosing disease
• Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
• Juvenile arthritis (JA)
• Juvenile diabetes (type 1 diabetes)
• Juvenile myositis (JM)
• Kawasaki syndrome
• Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
• Leukocytoclastic vasculitis (LCV)
• Lichen planus scalp
• Lichen planus skin
• Lichen sclerosus
• Ligneous conjunctivitis (LC)
• Linear IgA disease (LAD)
• (Systemic) lupus erythematosus (SLE)
• Lyme disease, chronic
• Mèniére’s disease
• Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA)
• Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)
• Mooren’s ulcer (MU)
• Morphea
• Mucha-Habermann disease
• Multifocal Motor Neuropathy (MMN)
• Multiple sclerosis (MS)
• Myasthenia gravis
• Myositis
• Narcolepsy
• Neonatal lupus
• Neutropenia
• Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid (OCP)
• Opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome
• Optic neuritis (ON)
• Ord’s thyroiditis
• Palindromic rheumatism (PR)
• Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD)
• Parkinson’s disease
• Neuromyelitis optica
• Neuromyotonia
• Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
• Parry-Romberg syndrome
• Parsonage-Turner syndrome (PTS)
• Pars planitis (peripheral uveitis)
• Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcus (PANDAS)
• Pemphigus vulgaris
• Peripheral neuropathy
• Perivenous encephalomyelitis
• Pernicious anemia (PA)
• POEMS syndrome
• Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN)
• Polyglandular syndromes type 1, 2, 3 (PAS)
• Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR)
• Polymyositis (PM)
• Postmyocardial infarction syndrome
• Postpericardiotomy syndrome (PPS)
• Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC)
• Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)
• Progesterone dermatitis
• Progressive inflammatory neuropathy
• Psoriasis
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA)
• Pyoderma gangrenosum
• Raynaud’s disease
• Reactive arthritis/Reiter’s syndrome
• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD)
• Relapsing polychondritis (RP)
• Restless legs syndrome (RLS)
• Retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF)
• Rheumatic fever
• Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
• Sarcoidosis
• Schizophrenia
• Schmidt syndrome
• Scleritis
• Scleroderma
• Sjögren’s disease
• Some forms of cancer
• Sperm and testicular autoimmunity
• Stiff person syndrome (SPS)
• Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE)
• Susac’s syndrome
• Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO)
• Takayasu’s arteritis
• Temporal arteritis/Giant cell arteritis (GCA)
• Thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
• Thyroid eye disease (TED)
• Tolosa-Hunt syndrome (THS)
• Transverse myelitis
• Type 1 diabetes
• Ulcerative colitis (UC)
• Undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD)
• Uveitis
• Vasculitis
• Vesiculobullous dermatosis
• Vitiligo
• Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease
References
“Autoimmune Disease List.” American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association, Inc., www.aarda.org/diseaselist. 7 March 2021.
“The Autoimmune Diseases.” Autoimmune Registry. www.autoimmuneregistry.org/autoimmune-diseases. 7 March 2021.
Ballantyne, Sarah. The Paleo Approach: Reverse Autoimmune Disease and Heal Your Body. Victory Belt Publishing Inc., 2013.
O’Bryan, Tom. The Autoimmune Fix: How to Stop the Hidden Autoimmune Damage That Keeps You Sick, Fat, and Tired Before It Turns into Disease. Rodale, 2016.
Trescott, Mickey, and Angie Alt. The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness. Rodale, 2016.
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