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Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
Condition / disease reference page from the Everyone Healthy database.
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Condition overview
Attributes
Ageis Infant
Commonalityis rare
Incidenceis approximately 1 in 100,000 people
Linked signs and symptoms
7Each sign/symptom opens its own page and links back to related conditions.
Linked drugs / medications
0No linked drugs are listed yet.
Treatments, therapies and supportive options
7Grouped by treatment type. These are educational database links, not personal treatment recommendations. Evidence labels are shown only where stored in the EH database.
Medical therapy
2Lifestyle changes
1Behavioural changes
1Alternative and complementary therapies
1Alternative medicine
1Linked diagnostic tests and investigations
1These are pulled from both EH diagnostic-test link tables, including the older large test-link table.
Biological and test markers
1This visual map uses existing EH database links to show biological agents and lab markers reported as increased, decreased, or associated with this condition. These are educational relationships only; test results must be interpreted by a qualified clinician because ranges vary by lab, method, age, sex and clinical context.
Often increased
0No markers in this group.
Often decreased
1Other associated markers
0No markers in this group.
Introduction / full article
Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
Efficacy of Alternative and Other Treatments According to GRADE* Ranking:
Essiac Tea (Flor Essence) [1, 2, 3]:
Please note, this management does NOT treat the condition itself. It may mildly help with some of the symptoms, and even then has insufficient evidence to back up this claim at present.
Recommendation: no recommendation (available evidence does not support claims that Essiac Tea helps to treat immune deficiency)
Grade of Evidence: low quality of evidence
* www.gradeworkinggroup.org
Summary References
Treatments:
1. Ades T, Alteri R, Gansler T, Yeargin P, "Complete Guide to Complimentary & Alternative Cancer Therapies", American Cancer Society, Atlanta USA, 2009
2. http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/HerbsVitaminsandMinerals/essiac-tea
3.http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/patient-essiac.html