Auto Immune Diseases and Its Social Implications

It is been there in my mind for sometime to write on this topic. Diseases and It's social implications. Few months back I had written about the awareness needed among people about diseases, It's management patterns (From a patient point of view), and the today emerging money making healthcare era. This awareness and knowledge will help us to reach better solutions without confusions.

Last week I had chance to meet a doctor, and a patient's husband. Where the patient is suffering from a kind of problem called Auto Immune disorder. By reading the name you can come in to the understanding that it's something with immunity. As I am not medical doctor who can speak much on this disease, but as the doctor friend of mine given some insight of this disorder and it's social implications. Which I consider to be important to know everyone and get aware.

As the doctor said the auto immune disorder is something where your body muscles get treated like a enemy by your own body systems. Thus resulted inflammatory response which is never curable. And the consequences will starts like the the increasing weight,pain, fragile joints, morning stiffness etc. (Refer for more details) In a long run the person affected with this disorder always need a help of someone mostly for 24*7*365 days. Which made me feel bad. 

And this case my friend's wife have this issue. 2 years back they got married after 2 years of love. When my friend asked me to find some doctor for his wife's treatment I came to know about this disorder. While discussing with the doctor whom I knew bit personally, she explained me about the consequences of the disease and it's social implications.

As this disease may show it's head by the age of 25-28 (Approximately), where people who generally get married and plan for their babies. Now the concern is as the girl get diagnosed this issue, she needs to be on painkillers continuously to kill the pain. As to eligible to conceive the baby one needs to away from any kind of pain killer as it plays badly with fetus growth. So now the girl has to bear the pain from the moment of planning till deliver the baby without painkillers..Horrible isn't it??.

And the doctor further continued with his experience in this kind of cases. Predominantly this disorder affects the women than men. That's the another bad thing with this disorder. Most of these kind of cases girls irrespective of the physical struggles they need to manage the mental struggles given by society, where the social implications comes. If it's the arranged marriage the moment the mother in law knows that the daughter in law have a problem like this, immediately they blame the girl's family and try to divorce her and will try to find another girl for her son. Most of the known cases ended divorcing the affected women. In case of the love marriage, the couple have a better understanding than the couple who married through arranged proposals. So the boy will accept and happily live with her. (Considering that all the boys who end up in love marriage are good!) Here also in most cases the boy divorce the girl, as he has to live with the wife who is a full time ill person and need a permanent assistant for doing her own daily routines. And if she conceived and delivered a baby also the care for both mother and baby has to be taken care by someone. And the amount of painkillers she takes may restrict her mental and physical abilities to lead a normal life. And the financial burden increase as the cost of treatment goes up gradually. So conventional husbands and mother in laws generally want to escape from these scenarios and live their life without caring the affected women.

So it is up to the men. So men has to accept her as she is and has to live and treat her like a normal person. That's where the really men lives. This is what I believe. And I too understand the kind of life for a men who doesn't done anything wrong, as well as the girl. So challenge the situation and win over it together would be right and sensible which I do and all ideal men do.

Many of these kind of disorders are many among humans. We can't control or cure beyond certain level. But we can surely manage them. Love is the only solution to manage all problems like this. So following good healthy life style will somehow keep us away from this kind of issues. And even if comes, don't runaway from the people who thinks that you are everything for them. Stay with them with tons of love and fight this. I know it is easy to say. But true unconditional love makes it's easy to do either.

Here I try to explain a disease and its social implications in the perspective which I came to know. You too have many perspective of facts and stories lie this. Share it with people and spread the awareness. Love is the only solution which cannot be taken by anybody, anytime. 

Note: Bare me for my English!!!. 

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/autoimmunediseases.html