Are You In An Autoimmune Flare? #shorts

Because that extends the amount of time before you need other interventions. We have a lot of our chronically ill patients who, when they are feeling well and we're treating all of the underlying problems from their chronic illness, their autoimmunity, maybe the labs will be negative and they'll feel better and all that, or maybe the labs are a little positive, but they don't have symptoms. And that's great 'cause we can move forward and just do that. But then they will flare up, and when they're flared up, sometimes their autoimmune labs will flare as well. So another thing about autoimmunity, especially if you have other chronic illness associated with it, is it's not static. It's not like you're always at this same level and you always have that. And so what you want is as long a periods of remission and as long a periods of low or no disease state as possible.