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Lupus, Every Women Night Mare
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January 3rd, 2011Health InfoTags: Lupus Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, SLE
Women are vulnerable to this disease. Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus / SLE) is said as lupus because it causes a red rash on the cheeks and around the nose of many sufferers. Lupus is an autoimmune disease. Establish the patient’s body immune against his own body organs. For example occurred in the kidneys, liver, joints, blood cells, and so forth. In the body there is one function of antibodies that will attack the disease enters the body. A person affected by this disease, inside my body to form antibodies excessive. As a result, the antibodies actually attack the cells and healthy tissue. Antibody excess goes to all body tissues in several ways, namely:1. The antibodies can directly attack body cells such as red blood cells, causing the cells were destroyed. This is why people with red blood cell deficiency or anemia.
2. Antibodies can be joined with an antigen which is the formation of antibodies stimulating substances, which then form a bond, called immune complexes. The combined antibody and antigen will flow with blood until caught in capillary blood vessels and cause inflammation.
Lupus is also known as a disease because it attacks the thousand faces of all organ systems and symptoms are varied. Can lupus affects everyone without exception. But women are more at risk 6 to 10 times than men, especially at the age of 15 to 50 years. Therefore, lupus often cause various health problems, for example just a miscarriage (if a pregnant woman is exposed to the disease lupus), impaired fetal development, or may cause the baby died at birth.
Asian and African nations are more susceptible to disease in comparison with whites.
The cause of lupus is not yet known, but has known several reasons why women are susceptible to this disease. Among them:
1. Strong suspicion that the lupus associated with estrogen. It can be seen by many women of childbearing age are affected by lupus.
2. Environment had a role as well, such as infection, ultraviolet light, allergies, stress, use of certain drugs.
3. Heredity. But how big the impact is different for each person.
Treatment of lupus disease is done by giving a drug called a steroid hormone. Treatment of this disease requires long-term treatment.
