Lupus diseases

August 25, 2010 · Posted in Diseases, Lupus 

The body has immunity to attack the disease and keeping healthy. However, what would happen if it attacks the immune organs healthy. Lupus diseases associated with alleged excessive immunological system.

The disease is quite mysterious. The doctors sometimes confused diagnose this disease. His name is a bit unique, LUPUS.

Lupus is Latin for “wolf”. This term began to be known about a century ago. Initially, these patients thought to have a skin disorder, in the form of redness around the nose and cheek. Red blotches on the face and arms, heat and prolonged fatigue, hair loss, swollen joints and often arise sprue. The disease is not only attacking the skin, but also can attack almost all organs in the body.

The symptoms of the disease known as Systemic Lupus Eritomatosus (LES) aka Lupus. Eritomatosus means reddish. whereas control every aspect significant systemicwidespread organ. The term is called LES or lupus.

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The number of lupus patients is not too much. According to literature data, in the United States found 14.6 to 50.8 per 100,000. In Indonesia can be found around 50,000 sufferers.

Lupus disease is very common for the community.

Having examined the causes of lupus because of heredity and environment. This disease affects women aged very productive until the age of 50 years. However, there are also men who experience it. Experts suspect the disease is related to the hormone estrogen.

Since Lupus attacked her fertile, often causing various aspects of health. For example the relationship with pregnancy that causes abortion, fetal development problems or even babies died at birth.

However, this could have happened otherwise. That is, it can worsen symptoms of pregnancy Lupus. Common symptoms of lupus arise during pregnancy or after childbirth.

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