Pregnancy Linked to Autoimmune Disorders

Los Angles Times, Mar. 26, 2001

Researchers from the Advancement of Science found that women that bear children can “seed” a cell left over from the fetus. This left over cell circulates in a women’s body for years, which triggers the autoimmune disorder. The reason this cell triggers is because half of the fetal cells are foreign, contributed by the father. Half the genes in the fetal cells are genes that aren’t your own. You get them from the male or female. So during pregnancy, women are exposed to cells from the child, and these can engraft and persist indefinitely. Also this cell can make the mothers immune system very low, which might cause a cold or sickness. Research has also shown that the transfer of individual cells between the mother and the infant goes both ways, meaning the some of the mother’s cells also goes into the fetus. Scientists and chemists are trying to develop a successful way of curing this disorder, but have been unsuccessful so far.

My opening is this article was scary because all the new studies and experiments out are just telling us that there is a way to get a disease or disorder from anything. Probably next we could get a disorder from exercising of watching TV. The studies a just brings fear into the publics eyes.