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Has autoimmune reset via measles been studied?
I recently learned that the biggest danger of measles is that it can reset the immune system, leading to a person being susceptible to all the dangerous childhood diseases all over again.
As a not-doctor, this led me to wonder if anybody has studied measles to see if that mechanism could be used for autoimmune diseases. Could, say, a type-1 diabetic undergo a sort of inpatient live-vaccine-like regime for measles, and come out with their immune system reset to not attack their pancreas? Though they'd need all their childhood shots all over again. In effect curing diabetes via a high-risk bout of measles-derived probably weeks-in-hospital procedure?
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Hello @rulen613, Welcome to Connect. You pose an interesting question. I'm not a doctor and have previously been labeled as pre-diabetic most of my adult life but have never developed diabetes but have other autoimmune conditions. I personally would not want to go through a vaccine regime just to reset my immune system. I think the human body is very complex and a reset doesn't appeal to me but I'm sure there are others that may be interested. Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/) turned up this 2024 research that I think is what you are talking about.
-- INfluenza VaccInation To mitigate typE 1 Diabetes (INVITED): a study protocol for a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial in children and adolescents with recent-onset type 1 diabetes:
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/6/e084808.abstract
Do you have type 1 diabetes?
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