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

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CIDP (Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy) is an autoimmune diseases where the body 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 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. 

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