When you or a loved one finds out that they have been plagued with an autoimmune disease, it can be a scary time. These diseases cause the body to be inflamed and sluggish. This can in turn created a stressful situation that affects your mental health. Happily with the right balance of western medicine from the doctor and holistic treatments such as Manual Lymphatic Drainage a sense of peace can be attained while coping with an autoimmune disease.
What is an Autoimmune Disease?
If you are not familiar with the term, these types of diseases cause your immune system to mistakenly attack your own body’s healthy tissues and cells. In a normal immune system, white blood cells are sent to attack foreign bacteria, viruses and toxins. However when an autoimmune disease in involved, the immune system stops being able to tell the difference between healthy tissues and the bad foreign invaders. Surprisingly the exact science of why this happens has not been specified yet. Symptoms often vary as well depending on which autoimmune disease someone has. However many autoimmune diseases can be caused by sluggish lymph fluid that becomes acidic laying beneath the skin
The American Autoimmune Related Disease Association (AARDA) reports that 50 million Americans have reported having an autoimmune disease. Sadly, more often then not it is women that get this diagnosis. However both men and women face a challenge when they try to keep their autoimmune disease under control in the their everyday lives. Living with these diseases quickly turn in a full-time job for people who are diagnosed. Some examples of autoimmune diseases are…
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Lupus
- Psoriasis
- Lyme Disease
- Fibromyalgia
- Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
- These are just a few among many more
Treatment for the side effects?
The advances in modern medicine have provided many medications and antibiotics that can keep patients symptoms under control. The drawback being that these seems medicines that help can also cause toxic lymph fluid and edema with other harsh side effects. Edema is swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body’s tissues. This can happen anywhere on the body, but is usually more prominent in the hands, arms, feet, ankles and legs . This is where Manual Lymphatic Drainage comes in to help! The gentle massage helps moves the fluid in your body. The more the lymph fluid moves the more toxins are released from the lymphatic system.
Manual Lymphatic Drainage and autoimmune disease also go hand in hand due to how MLD can heal the diseases trauma on the body. A cleansed lymph system will no longer result in chronic symptoms such as:
- Fatigue
- Nausea
- Itchiness
- Nerve Pain
- Numbness and tingling
- Headaches and migraines
- Muscle cramps
- Swelling of any kind
- Brain fog
- Trouble concentrating
- Skin rashes
- Abdominal pain
- Recurring fevers
Manual Lymphatic Drainage and Autoimmune Diseases, Where to Get Help.
Amare Healing Arts sole goal to help those living with an autoimmune disease make their lives easier. This is done with a combination of Manual Lymphatic Drainage, Ayurveda/Holistic Counseling and the very human element of compassion to encourage a healthful body and provide peace of mind. Using a vast knowledge of the lymphatic system and how it works with the immune system, Amare Healing Arts is able to help sufferers of autoimmune diseases clear away symptoms. Removing these toxins from fluids in the body allows people to get back to focusing on what really matters to them.