Question

1.is chronic obstructive pulmonay disease for chonric bronchitis and emphysema an autoimmune disease ?

2.is pneumonia an autoimmune disease?

3.is gastreosophageal refulx diease an autoimmune dielsease?

4.cirrhosis an autoimmune diease ?

5. acute pancreatitis autoimmune disease ? Chronic pancreatitis an autoimmune disease?

Answer 1

Autoimmune diseases are disorders which occur when the body immune system starts attacking its own healthy cells and tissues. When theT cells and B cells of immune system becomes self reactive and mechanism of negative selection fails, they start attacking the healthy tissues.

Cause for autoimmune disease is unclear bu could be due to infection, hereditary or environmental factors.

1. Chronic bronchitis is not an autoimmune disease

Emphysema is not an autoimmune disease

2. Pneumonia is an infectious disease. It is not an autoimmune disease

3. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is regurgitation of food back into oesophagus from stomach. It is not an autoimmune disease.

4. Cirhosis of liver is fibrosis of liver fue to liver disease, alcoholism or hepatitis. It is not autoimmune disease.

5. Acute pancreatitis is not autoimmune but chronic pancreatitis can be autoimmune