CIDP - Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
Symptoms, Treatments, and Diagnosis

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Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy is an autoimmune diseases where the body's immune system attacks its own nerves.  During infancy the body's immune system learns to differentiate between self and non-self. This means that normally the body learns not to attack itself; It also knows when a foreign object like a virus or a bacteria has entered the body which needs to be gotten rid of. In autoimmune diseases, the recognition of self is lost and the body attacks itself. The nerves of the body are seen as a foreign object and attacked. If this occurs acutely then the illness is called Guillain-Barré and if it becomes chronic then it is called Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy. All the symptoms are caused as the result of nerve injury. Since the cause of the disease is immune mediated, we have successfully used medications that modify the immune system with great success in the treatment of the most difficult cases.

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