Thursday, August 2, 2012

LUPUS - What is Lupus?

       We may not know much about the disease Lupus, What is Lupus? Lupus is a disease of the deadly new disease is equivalent to cancer. Not a few pengindap disease is not beyond help, the world's people with the disease Lupus detected 5 million people, more than 100 thousand new cases occur each year.
      Own sense of the word lupus is Latin for "coyotes". This term began to be known about a century ago. Initially, patients with this disease thought to have a skin disorder, in the form of redness around the nose and cheeks. Red spots on the face and arms, heat and prolonged fatigue, hair loss, swollen joints and often arise sprue. This disease not only affects the skin, but also can affect almost every organ in the body.
    The symptoms of the disease known as Systemic Lupus Eritomatosus (LES) aka Lupus. Eritomatosus means reddish. significant systemic spread, while every aspect of the organs. The term is called SLE or lupus. 
Below are some of the Symptoms of lupus include:
  1. The skin is easily burned by the sun and the incidence of digestive disorders.
  2. The most common symptoms patients often feel weak, excessive fatigue, fever and fatigue. This phenomenon is mainly found in the active period, whereas during remission (off) disappeared.
  3. In the skin, will appear a red rash that extends on both cheeks, like a butterfly. Sometimes called the (butterfly rash). But the disc resembles a red rash can appear on the skin throughout the body, prominent and sometimes scaly. Seeing the many symptoms of this disease, the woman who was attacked by two or more symptoms alone, should be suspected of suffering from Lupus.
  4. Anemia caused by red blood cells are destroyed by this lupus
  5. Hair loss and fatigue are often excessive
     Lupus is a disease where the immune system in the body tissue is considered a foreign object. Reaction of the immune system can be on various organ systems of the body such as skin tissue, muscle, bone, kidney, nervous system, cardiovascular system, lungs, lining of the lungs, liver, digestive system, eyes, brain, and blood vessels and cell- blood cells.
     "This disease can affect all walks of life, 1-5 people in every 100,000 inhabitants, is genetic, can be derived. Women are 6-10 times more than men, especially at the age of 15-40 years. African and Asian nations are more vulnerable than whites. And of course, Odapus family. The emergence of this disease because of the sensitivity factors and precipitating factors, namely the presence of infection, drug use, sun exposure, use of birth control pills, and stress, "he said. This indeed is most affects women of childbearing age until age 50 even if there are men who experience it. It is therefore considered to be suspected of the disease is associated with the hormone estrogen.
     In pregnancies of women who suffer from lupus, often is associated with pregnancy that causes abortion, fetal development or the baby died at birth. But the opposite is also possible or even worsen geja LUPUS. Lupus symptoms appear frequently encountered during pregnancy or after childbirth.
     To attack the body's own immune diseases and keep healthy. However, the disease attacks the immune system instead of a healthy organ. Lupus disease is associated with an excessive immunological system. Antibodies were found in a person's body that serves to attack the source of the disease to be included in the body. Uniquely, this lupus antibodies formed in the body appears excessive. The result, antibodies actually attack the cells of a healthy body tissue. This disorder is called autoimmunity. This excess antibody, can get into the whole network in two ways:
     First, antibodies can directly attack this strange tissue, as in red blood cells which causes the cells will be destroyed. This is what lead to the sufferer red blood cell deficiency or anemia.
     Second, antibodies can be joined with the antigen (a substance stimulating the formation of antibodies), forming a bond called imun.Gabungan antibody and antigen complex flow with blood, until lodged in the capillaries will cause inflammation. Under normal circumstances, the complex will be limited by inflammatory cells (phagocytes) However, in abnormal circumstances, this complex can not be restricted as well. In fact, inflammatory cells had increased a lot, removing enzymes, which cause inflammation around the complex. The result, the process will be prolonged inflammation and damage organs and interfere with its function. Furthermore, it will be seen as symptoms of the disease. If this happens, then the long-term organ function will be disrupted.

     Complete recovery from this disease, it seems difficult. Physicians were more focused on treatment that are focused on preventing the spread sementara.Lebih disease and did not attack the body's vital organs.

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