Lupus, Attack All Organs



More than five million people of childbearing age worldwide have been diagnosed bearing Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus).

Therefore people with this disease should consume a variety of drugs in a long time even a lifetime.

Lupus is a deadly new disease is equivalent to cancer. Many of these diseases pengindap beyond help, people with lupus have reached five million people, and more than 100 thousand new cases occur each year.


Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can affect almost every organ / body system in the form of an inflammatory reaction and can be life threatening. Persons with lupus should eat a variety of drugs in a long time even in his life, says dr. Rachmat Gunadi SpPD-KR, observers Lupus, recently.

In Latin means "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. Red blotches on 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.

No rare adverse effects caused by the drug be fatal even worse than the disease itself. There are no exact figures for the number Odapus throughout Indonesia, but the estimate was more than 300 thousand people, said Rahmat Gunadi of Fak. Medicine Padjadjaran University / RSHS Bandung.

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 lupus, hair loss and fatigue are often excessive.

He explained that this disease can affect all levels of society, and one to five 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, sun exposure, use of birth control pills, and stress,? he said.

This disease affects women it is most productive age until the age of 50 years although 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. Lupus symptoms appear common during pregnancy or after childbirth.

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