Sometimes, your immune system can mistake parts of your own body for foreign invaders. It releases special antibodies, called autoantibodies, that attack your cells and tissues. Autoantibodies can damage your joints, skin, muscles, and other parts of your body. Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) are a type of autoantibody that attacks proteins inside your cells. It is likely that he has Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) where the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys platelets, antibodies produced by the immune system attach themselves to the platelets, marking the platelets for destruction. This condition can be treated and managed by medication such as immunosuppresants, Injections to increase your blood count, drugs that boost platelet production and tranfusion of blood and platelets. To increase the platelet count papaya leaf juice has shown to be effective.
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