Published on November 30, 2024 at 4:10 p.m. / Modified on November 30, 2024 at 4:13 p.m.
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Three years ago, when Adrien felt irritation in his eyes and noticed that they were abnormally bulging, he made an appointment directly with an ophthalmologist. After prescribing him different types of drops without observing any concrete beneficial effects, she tells him that it could be a hormonal imbalance. He then contacted the endocrinology department of the CHUV. His blood test reveals that his exophthalmos – a disorder which is characterized by a protrusion of the eyeball out of the orbit – is the result of an autoimmune disease due to hormonal imbalance. Concretely, his immune system accumulates too many antibodies – up to 45 times more than the norm – which, without being eliminated, end up attacking his own body.
“I was constantly exhausted and, in addition to my exophthalmos, I also had swelling in my ankles which were becoming more and more pronounced,” says Adrien, in his forties, landscaper on the Lake Geneva region. “The CHUV approach mainly consisted of drug treatments to lower my high antibody level. During the first months, the doses were really high to try to stop the phenomenon. Knowing that the treatment can be spread over the long term and that the side effects can notably include damage to the liver, I looked for a natural alternative and turned to a general practitioner specializing in naturopathy since treatments based on of plants have few, if any, side effects.”
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