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ADDISON’s DISEASE AND ITS ETIOLOGY, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT

ADDISON’s DISEASE



  -> A rare illness marked by gradual and progressive failure of the adrenal glands and insufficient production of steroid hormones. Inadequate amounts of glucocorticoids ( e.g.cortisol) and mineral corticoids (e.g.aldosterone )

            ETIOLOGY

 -> Autoimmune destruction of adrenal glands (80% of cases), chronic infections(e.g , tuberculosis, cytomegalovirus,either virus such as, Lyme disease or histologists), or cancers that metastasize to the adrenal glands from other organs(e.g, insufficiency is related to supression of hypothalami c-pituitary- adrenal axis function.

          Symptoms

  -> A feeling of fatigue and weakness
        -nausea /vomiting
        - Abdominal pain
         -Craving for salt and dizziness
        - Hypo tension

         TREATMENT

  -Contortionists such as hydro cortisone or prednisone ,  , usually taken twice a day..
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