Autoimmune disease causes the immune-system to wrongly recognise body-structures as alien and to gradually destroy them. Because many different structures can be affected, various conditions can develop.
An autoimmune disease causes the immune system to produce antibodies against its own body structures because it doesn’t recognise them as belonging to the body, but as extraneous. This leads to those structures being gradually destroyed. Antibodies can attack different body structures, causing an accordingly variety of resulting diseases and conditions. They are explained more detailed in the respective conditions.
As mentioned above, a variety of conditions with a similar variety of symptoms can occur, depending on the body structures that are wrongly attacked as extraneous. Common diseases resulting from an autoimmune disease are rheumatic conditions, some diseases of thyroid and kidney, multiple sclerosis, lupus and many more. They all have in common that they are chronic diseases that usually require lifelong therapy.
All autoimmune diseases are chronic and require lifelong therapy, to slow down the destruction of attacked structures and to maintain quality of life. In most cases therapy includes different medication that tries to influence the immune system to produce fewer antibodies against body-structures. As this therapy is not targeting a specific antibody, the immune-system will generally produce fewer antibodies, resulting in the patient being more susceptible to infections. Regular check-ups and therapy adjustments by a specialist for the respective conditions are important.
Several years of work in academia, medical practice and finally commercialization make it possible to provide an end-to-end process to help users to “find the appropriate medical help based on their present symptoms”. Below you will find a short explanation, showing you which part of the platform will help you best in finding the appropriate medical support.
Proceed as follows to enter your current symptoms.
Click on the appropriate body part on the picture. Select one/multiple symptoms corresponding to your complaint.
You can also add symptoms by typing your medical complaint in the search box and selecting the best matching suggestion.
Note: Your information will be kept anonymously.
Once you have selected all applicable symptoms, click the “analyze disease pattern”-button.
Accordingly, you will get a list of possible diseases and matching doctor categories who can further help you.
You can inform yourself about the possible diseases by reading the related information. But you can also return to the previous step and add more symptoms or delete already added ones to further narrow down your disease pattern.
Click on the desired doctor category to find a doctor who can help you.
If you are logged in with your profile, you will be displayed the appropriate doctors in your area. Otherwise you can enter an address in the “address” field and you will be displayed a doctor’s list around that specified address.
You will receive further information about the displayed doctors when you press on “details”.
Online bookable doctors in your area will be indicated with the notation “Book appointment” or “Book externally”, additionally they will be displayed on top of the list for your convenience.
Click on “Book appointment” to start the online appointment booking process with the desired doctor.
Please select an available appointment. “Green“ appointments are booked directly. “Red“ appointments need to be confirmed by the doctor.
Enter your general personal and health information.
Enter your present medical symptoms.
Enter your mobile phone number to identify yourself and you can finalize the appointment booking.
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