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Addison's disease
Your adrenal glands are just on top
of your kidneys. The outside stratum of these glands
makes hormones that assist your body responds to stress
and control your blood pressure and water and
salt balance. Addison's disease happens if
the adrenal glands don't make enough of these hormones.
A difficulty with your immune system
usually causes Addison's disease. The immune system
mistakenly assaults your own tissues, damaging your
adrenal glands.
Symptoms comprise
- Weight loss
- Muscle weakness
- Fatigue that gets worse over time
- Low blood pressure
- Patchy or dark skin
Lab tests can bear out that you have Addison's disease.
If you don't treat it, it can be lethal.
You will require taking hormone pills
for the rest of your life. If you have Addison's disease,
you ought to carry an emergency ID. It
should say that you have the disease, file your medicines
and say how much you require in an emergency.
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