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Health information : Lupus disease - Lupus or Erythematosus is a chronic disease that takes place due to the production of antibodies or substances that are too excessive body immunity. Autoimmune disease lupus commencing at the time of disease due to lupus, the body may produce antibodies to destroy the actual germs or cancer cells in the body, but in the situation of autoimmune antibodies in fact cause damage to the body's own organs. side of the body organs that are often destroyed: kidneys, joints, skin, heart, APRU, brain, and vascular system. the longer the system lasts destruction, more severe organ damage.

Symptoms of Lupus Disease (characteristic feature of lupus disease)

Initial symptoms usually appear in patients with this disease is a skin disorder, such as redness around the nose and cheeks. Red blotches 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 redness. whereas significant systemic spread every related organ. The term is called LES or Lupus. The symptoms which are common are:

* Easy to experience indigestion and skin sensitive to sunlight so easily burnt.

* Body feels weak, and was accompanied by excessive fatigue and even fever aches

* On skin, red rash appears which runs on both cheeks, like a butterfly. Sometimes called the (butterfly rash). But red rash resembling discs can appear on the skin all over 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 having lupus.

* Anemia caused by red blood cells that are destroyed by this lupus

* Frequent hair loss and low platelets

Causes of lupus

Until now researchers in the field of dermatology is still researching more about the causes of lupus disease, anyone can suffer from this disease is not limited by age and gender, genetic nature but according to the scientists estimate that the female hormone (estrogen) may be something to do with the causes of disease lupus because of the fact that there is known that 9 out of 10 people with lupus are women, some of the factors that can trigger lupus disease:

* Environment

* Infection

* Exposure to sunlight

* Stress

* Certain drugs

Types of Lupus Disease

* Cutaneous lupus: discoid Often referred affecting the skin.

* Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) that attack organs such as the skin, joints, lungs, blood, blood vessels, heart, kidneys, liver, brain, and nerves.