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Originally Posted by kiwi33
Ravenclaw, I think that shifting the balance of Th1 and Th2 cells is favour of more Th2 cells would probably help in MG.
I don't know if this has been tried but one potential risk of it is that Th1 cells have important roles in defending against bacterial and viral infections - relatively small numbers of Th1 cells could mean that people are unusually susceptible to these infections.
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Thanks, yeah that's probably true but most of my meds have risk of (scary) infections as side effect. I get a lot of ivig however, so i guess that helps with that.