Tuesday, August 16, 2011

What Is Lupus?

Lupus is a deadly new disease is equivalent to cancer. Not a few pengindap disease is beyond help, the world's people with lupus detected reached 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 abnormalities of skin, a redness around the nose and cheeks. Patches of red in the face and arms, heat and prolonged fatigue, hair loss, joint swelling and often ulcers arise. 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. whereas significant systemic spread every related organs. The term is called SLE or lupus. The symptoms which are common are:
  • The skin is easily burned by the sun and the onset of digestive disorders.Symptoms generally sufferers often feel weak, excessive fatigue, fever and aches. 
  •  This phenomenon is mainly found in the active period, while in remission (off) disappeared.In the skin, it would appear that ran a red rash on both cheeks, like a butterfly. 
  • Sometimes called the (butterfly rash). But a red rash resembling a disc can appear on the skin throughout the body, striking 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 having lupus.
  • Anemia caused by red blood cells are destroyed by this disease LUPUS 
  • The hair is often loss and excessive tiredness

Dr. Gunadi grace of Fak. Medicine Padjadjaran University / RSHS describes, lupus is a disease in which immune system tissues in the body is considered a foreign object. Reaction of the immune system can be about various organ systems of the body such as skin tissue, muscle, bones, kidneys, nervous system, cardiovascular system, lungs, lining of the lungs, liver, digestive system, eyes, brain, and blood vessels and cells blood cells.
"This disease can affect all walks of life, 1-5 people among the 100,000 inhabitants, is genetic, can be derived. Women 6-10 times more frequently than men, especially at the age of 15-40 years. African and Asian nations are more vulnerable than whites. And of course, family Odapus. The emergence of this disease because of the sensitivity factors and precipitating factors is the presence of infection, drug use, exposure to sunlight, use of birth control pills, and stress, "he said. This disease affects women it is most productive age until age 50 even though there are also 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 believed to be related to pregnancy that causes abortion, fetal development or infant died at birth. But the opposite is also possible or even worsen geja LUPUS. Common symptoms of lupus arise during pregnancy or after childbirth.
The body has immunity to attack diseases and keeping healthy. However, in this disease actually attacks the immune system of healthy organs. Lupus-related illnesses allegedly 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, the disease Lupus is an antibody formed in the body appears excessive. The result, antibodies actually attack the cells of healthy organ tissue. This disorder is called autoimmunity. Antibody excess, can enter the whole network in two ways:
First, antibodies can directly attack this strange body tissue, such as red blood cells that cause the cells will be destroyed. This is what lead to the sufferer of red blood cell deficiency or anemia.
Second, antibodies can be joined with an antigen (a substance stimulating the formation of antibodies), forming a bond called imun.Gabungan antibody and antigen complex flow with blood, until caught 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 were multiplying while 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 in the long-term organ function will be disrupted.
Complete recovery from this disease, it seems difficult. Doctors focus more on medicine right sementara.Lebih focused on preventing the spread of disease and does not attack the body's vital organs.

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