What is Lupus? Basic explanation please ...?
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It's an autoimmune disease (a disease in which the immune system attacks the body's own cells and tissues). Its primary feature is inflammation. Its effects may be widespread, or they may be more limited.
Some of the symptoms include:
painful, swollen joints
fever
exhaustion
a butterfly-shaped rash across the cheeks and nose
chest pain with deep inspiration
anemia (low iron levels in the blood)
protein in the urine
photosensitivity (increased proneness to sunburn)
hair loss
blood clotting problems, which can affect internal organs
Reynaud's phenomenon (fingers turn white and/or blue in the cold)
A good rheumatologist can help guide treatment to forestall damage by the disease.
My ferret Nigel tells me it another name for a rabbit. (ref the film with Joan Collins, 'Night Of The Lupus') also a skin disease.
It's an autoimmune disease that can affect any organ in the body. Basically your body thinks that an organ in your body is not yours and starts to attack it to get rid of any possible infections it might pass on to you. It's the same as transplants, if the donor organ does not match yours, your immune system will protect itself.
#Lupus is a disease that can affect many parts of the body. Everyone reacts differently. One person with lupus may have swollen knees and fever. Another person may be tired all the time or have kidney trouble. Someone else may have rashes. Lupus can involve the joints, the skin, the kidneys, the lungs, the heart and/or the brain. If you have lupus, it may affect two or three parts of your body. Usually, one person doesn’t have all the possible symptoms.
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Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythmacytis or Discoidal Lupus Erythematosus) is an autoimmune disease, meaning your immune system does not recognize your own cells as belonging, it treats them as a foreign cell (like a bacteria or virus) and attempts to fight those cells. Your skin and joints are part of your immune system therefore generally are some of the first symptoms you may notice, although not necessarily. Systemic Lupus is harder to diagnose and generally affects your organs in a detrimental way and should be treated quickly to avoid as much irreparable damage as possible. Discoidal Lupus shows up as a recognizable skin rash (Systemic Lupus also appears with rashes, but not necessarily this type of rash), the generally roundish shape and texture of the rash being fairly unique to Lupus. Both conditions are serious, can cause major havoc on organs and should be treated quickly.
Hi, Im Chris, I have Lupus. In its most basic term this is what Lupus is. it is an autoimmune disease. which means that our own bodies cells turn on themselves because they become hyperactive for a variety of reasons (genetics, hormones, etc).
The cells think they are trying to fight a foriegn invader, like the flu, cancer, a virus etc. but they are not. soon they get so active they start destroying our own organs, skin, blood, central nervous system, muscles, bones, joints. Anything.
Lupus is not contagious, nor is it curable. Doctors can only control symptoms, or supress major problems with chemotherapy, steroids, or immunosuppresents (they stop the cells from being overactive.
I hope that was just the right amount of information
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