What's Hot informs and stimulates with monthly in-depth articles on diabetic health topics. There is a built-in tolerance for your own cells and tissue so that they are passed over in this vigilance. The whole arsenal of the immune system comes into play, and the body begins to destroy itself, cell by cell.
End results can be minor or major.
In rheumatoid arthritis the immune system causes painful swelling and stiffness of the joints, while in lupus, which affects mostly young women, the immune system attacks many organs causing rashes, kidney damage, fluid around the lungs, and inflamed lungs. Those of us with type 1 diabetes know the result of a body which turns on itself thinking it is defending our pancreas, but in reality it is slowly killing beta cells so that we are unable to manufacture insulin and we are forced to replace this hormone with multiple injections on a daily basis. The answer is yes, but before you kick the dog, put your head in the oven, or eat a chocolate cake, read on, because you can be treated for these other hormonal diseases and they are controllable. Now down to the nitty gritty. If you have type 1 diabetes you are greater risk for developing two types of thyroid auto-immune illnesses, gastric parietal cell disease, and adrenal gland disease.