- Connective tissue disease are disorders featuring abnormalities involving the collagen and elastin. Mixed connective tissue disease is an overlap of three diseases, systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, and polymyositis. The causes of this disease are unknown, but the disease is part of a larger group of diseases known as autoimune disorders. Some symptoms of this disease are pain in two or more joints, skin changes, swollen hands, and muscle weakness.
- A treatment for this disease would be the use of a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, which involves the breathing of pure oxygen while in a sealed chamber that has been pressurized at 1-1/2 to 3 times the normal atmospheric pressure.
Churg-Strauss Syndrome
- A rare systemic autoimmune disease in which small to medium sized arteries, arterioles, and venules get inflamed. It is more commonly known as vasculitis and is characterized by the invasion and abnormal increase of a white blood cell called eosinophil. Symptoms of this syndrome may include but are not limited to include asthma, weight loss, fever, night sweats, shortness of breath and a constant cough.
- One type of treatment for this disease would be the use of systemic steriods, which are usually the initial therapy. High doses are used at first to try to get the disease into remission and then lower doses are administered.
Inflammatory Bowel
- Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease in the large intestine. The inner lining of the intestine becomes inflamed and develops ulcers. Some symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease are mucus and blood appearing in the stool and diarrhea.
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