Our immune systems are built to help protect our body against foreign invaders, whether it be a common cold to more severe medical conditions. It serves to guard and battle anything that’s thrown at the body, whatever it may be and wherever it may be. Germs and viruses are everywhere, and no-one is invincible to the medical conditions that we can experience throughout our lifetime. As part of Healthy Living Family Medical, we offer a range of services to help better our patients, and one such service is for Autoimmune diseases.
About Healthy Living Family Medical
At Healthy Living Family Medical, you’ve come across a unique family practice based in Utah. We provide the usual care that you can come to expect at any family practice, but we also specialize in further services that help to find causes of conditions. Our knowledge and experience is focused on trying to reverse or slow down the disease’s process as best as we possibly can.
We don’t like to see anyone suffer and whether you’re dealing with an unexpected illness or injury that’s knocked you for six or from a chronic condition, we are the service that you’re looking for. Life is too short to feel unwell and we can help provide all the information you need to find the cause and solution to your medical problems.
With years of medical experience, our staff are professionals in various aspects of medicine and fields fo study. We can ensure that you’ll get everything you need and more, all with a warm and friendly welcome. We’ve been responsible for helping so many of our patients both past and present, with various chronic health problems that other medical professionals have turned them away for.
When you pick us for your medical care, we spend the time getting to know you, diving into your history and assessing genetical, environment and lifestyle factors. You can guarantee that you’re in capable hands, no matter what you need from us. As well as treating autoimmune disease, we cover an extensive list of medical conditions and thus making us a very unique and versatile practice. You will certainly find it difficult to find anyone else who can offer the same expertise and expanse service list that we provide.
Healthy Living Family Medical – Autoimmune Clinic
When it comes to an autoimmune disease, it’s a condition where your body starts attacking itself. The immune system is mistakenly attacking your various body parts, whether that be the joints, your skin or organs. The body can mimic cells that appear similar to foreign invaders, and as explained, the immune system is responsible for defending the body from these foreign bodies.
As a result of this molecular mimicry, your body will release proteins that are called auto antibodies to attack these cells.
The Symptoms
Being able to spot the symptoms of autoimmune disease is just as important as any other medical conditions. It’s important to try and spot these as early as possible so that our autoimmune doctors can help treat the condition itself. There are a few signs of autoimmune disease that are worth looking out for and that are likely noticeable to the patient as being abnormal. These are:
Fatigue – Feeling tired and having a lack of energy.
Irritable Bowels – Needing to use the restroom more frequently and often is uncomfortable.
Skin Rashes – Various rash formations across the skin.
Trouble Concentrating – Inability to focus on daily tasks and work.
Achy Muscles – Soreness in the muscle area.
Swelling and Inflammation – Swollen body parts or inflammation in and outside the body.
Hair Loss – Significant hair loss or moreso than your typical amount.
If you have a combination of these symptoms, then it’s definitely important to approach us so that we can help you diagnose the issue. Even one or two of these can make you feel unwell and is deserving of attention by medical professionals like us! Spotting the symptoms is important, and it should be something that you’re noticeable with when it comes to your own body.
The Treatment
In regards to treatment, we focus on helping find the root cause to the autoimmune disease. This could be caused by stress, the types of environments you’re exposed to, your diet and much more. Our discovery methods can help to pinpoint those areas where the symptoms are flaring up moreso. All this is important in finding a diagnosis and then providing you with a treatment plan that’s customized and tailored to your needs in helping to treat the disease.
Restoring your health is our main goal, and you’ll be encouraged to know that we’ve had plenty of success in providing both relief and restoring health with our previous patients. Our immune specialists can help you, just like they’ve helped others.
As a result of autoimmune disease, there are other medical diagnoses that can be determined within this condition. Lupus is a common form of autoimmune conditions whereby it affects the body with joint pain, skin rashes and tiredness. And although there’s no cure, we can provide the treatments available if caught early on to help slow down and improve how it affects the body. Sjogren’s syndrome is also a disorder that can happen in the immune system and can result in dry eyes and mouth. It’s something that can often accompany other immune system disorders like lupus.
Our Autoimmune Clinic
As part of our autoimmune clinic, we’ve helped many patients navigate their diagnosis successfully. Hearing the words autoimmune disease can be terrifying, and it can often feel as though your world has just imploded. However, we’re the experts you need to help do damage control where possible and to find medical solutions to this disease. We’re constantly looking to improve our knowledge and expertise of this disease so that we can help more of those who suffer from it.
Feeling ill, whether it’s fatigue or through hair loss or muscle soreness isn’t something you should be feeling regularly. If you spot any of these symptoms, it’s essential to get in touch with one of our immune specialists at Healthy Living Family Medical as soon as possible. By getting in touch, we can shed light on what’s wrong and can help treat it before it gets worse and damages your body even more. Untreated, an autoimmune disease can severely impact the quality of your life.
About Utah
Healthy Living Family Medical is based in the state of Utah, and we certainly wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Serving many within our local community, you can expect to feel at home within our practice. Apart from hosting the 2002 winter Olympics, Utah has some incredible mountains to explore as well as being a place where the Mormons settled in 1847. Interestingly Utah has the highest literacy rate of any state in the US and serves as one of the Four Corners states. It meets up with New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado at a single point.
We’ve also had our fair share of famous celebrities come from Utah including dancer and actress, Julianne Hough. The inventor of television, Philo Farnsworth was also born here, just like the notorious bank robber and criminal Butch Cassidy. With a rich history and plenty of interesting spots to visit, our home of Utah is a welcome place to visit and be a local of. Here in Utah and in our practice, we have some of the best medical professionals that the state has to offer.
Have Any Questions?
You can rest assured that we know our stuff and when it comes to providing a service like our autoimmune clinic, we are here for you. Our autoimmune physicians can shed light on something that might have been weighing on your mind for a while or perhaps you’ve been feeling ill lately and just don’t know why. Hopefully, this guide has provided you with more information about the autoimmune disease and the service that we offer here at this family-run practice. However, we’re sure you’ll have many more questions, and that’s something we want to help with.
If you have any questions about this medical condition or simply want to pop in to diagnose why you might not be feeling yourself, drop us a line or visit us. Many of our patients, both past and present, have managed to tackle their autoimmune disease in the right way thanks to our knowledge and experience available. Here at Healthy Living Family Medical, we’re committed to providing only the very best in services when it comes to any type of medical condition.
As well as being a typical family practice, we also do more than what others around the area can do. When you join our practice, you’ll be experiencing some of the best care and advice from top medical professionals. Being in safe and reliable hands is important when it comes to your health, so let us look after you and your family. We’re readily available to take your call, email or visit, so get in touch if you need our help, whatever this may be.