Autoimmune Disease Symptoms
These autoimmune skin diseases can show in a variety of ways. Symptoms can include:
- rashes,
- blisters,
- lesions,
- fatigue, and
- scaly patches.
Types of Autoimmune Skin Diseases
- Behcet's Disease
- Dermatitis Herpetiformis
- Dermatomyositis
- Lichen Planus
- Linear IgA Disease
- Lupus of the skin
- Morphea/Scleroderma
- Ocular Cicatricial pemphigoid
- Pemphigoid
- Pemphigus
- Vasculitis
Treatment for Autoimmune Skin Diseases
Autoimmune skin diseases cannot be cured, but we can help manage flare ups with treatment. Dermatology services at University of Utah Health offers a specialty autoimmune clinic designed to evaluate and treat patients with autoimmune conditions that affect their skin.
Our patients are treated by multiple board-certified dermatologists who specialize in autoimmune skin diseases. Our dermatologists give each patient extensive evaluation and treatment.
What Autoimmune Diseases Cause Blisters?
Healthy skin will only form a blister after your skin becomes damaged or dead. In skin suffering from an autoimmune blistering disease, your body's immune system mistakes normal skin tissue for something it needs to fight off, and then attacks this healthy skin tissue. This causes blisters to form.
Several autoimmune skin diseases are responsible for causing skin blistering, including:
- Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita
- IgA-mediated bullous dermatoses
- Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid
- Pemphigoid
- Pemphigus