medications that compromise the immune system?
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Pretty much any chemotherapeutic drug can compromise the immune system. Also, radiation, although not a medication, can. There are also specific immunosuppressant drugs that are used to treat autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis or lupus, that can cause lymphocyte suppression as well.
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the chemotherapeutic agents ( used for cancer therapy and autoimmune diseases like arthritis, SLE, arteritis(a disease of artery), myopathy, psoriasis etc. ) and cortico steroids (like prednisolone) can suppress the immune system. deficiency of certain elements like zinc and selenium are proposed/ claimed to cause immune deficiency, however the confirmation is not there by large controlled trials/ studies.
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