Long COVID: How Researchers are Zeroing in on the Self-Targeted Immune Attacks That May Lurk Behind it
"Studies revealed that patients with severe COVID-19 share some of the key traits of chronic autoimmune diseases."
Autoimmune Disease and COVID-19: a Complicated Relationship, Say Colorado Experts
“It is apparent that people with autoimmune disease have problems fighting off COVID. They are at higher risk for catching COVID in the first place and at higher risk for more severe COVID because their immune system can’t handle it once it occurs.”
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“Recent research suggests people with long Covid are more likely to have markers of autoimmune disease in their blood a year after infection.”
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Detailed Twitter thread: IBD is an autoimmune condition, which studies have shown increases a person’s chances of Long Covid. Now doctors are seeing both de novo IBD after Covid and worsening of existing IBD. (see this thread). More research is needed. Another reason for high grade mask & ventilation.
Radiological images confirm 'COVID-19 can cause the body to attack itself': Imaging illustrates severity, long-term prognosis of COVID-19-related muscle, joint pain
"We've realized that the COVID virus can trigger the body to attack itself in different ways, which may lead to rheumatological issues that require lifelong management,"
How Effects on the Brain Can Produce Long COVID - Neuroscience News
"scientists believe some symptoms may be caused by autoimmunity—in which the immune system is turned on to fight an incoming pathogen, but mistakenly recognizes the body’s own cells as targets. How Effects on the Brain Can Produce Long COVID -
COVID-19 and celiac disease: A pathogenetic hypothesis for a celiac outbreak - PubMed
Hypothesis: "Genetically predisposed patients could be more likely to develop celiac disease following SARS-CoV-2 infection, making COVID-19 a candidate culprit for a potential outbreak of celiac disease in the forthcoming future."
COVID-19 increases the chance of getting an autoimmune condition. Here's what the science says so far
"There are also reports of autoimmune responses that don’t clearly correspond to any known autoimmune disease. This suggests COVID-19 disease may trigger new autoimmune illnesses."
Can covid 19 cause autoimmune diseases
"So far, COVID-19 infections are linked to these different autoimmune conditions: Guillain-Barre syndrome Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura Autoimmune hemolytic anemia Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) Diabetes"
New Onset of Autoimmune Diseases Following COVID-19 Diagnosis
"There is growing evidence that COVID-19 can lead to a dysregulation of the immune system with the development of autoimmune phenomena...immune dysregulation ranges from the production of autoantibodies to the onset of rheumatic autoimmune disease."