Lupus : An Autoimmune Disease

The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the Georgia Council on Lupus Education and Awareness (GCLEA) partnered to increase community awareness on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and to further educate lupus patients throughout the underserved region of southwest Georgia. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, the most common form of lupus, is an autoimmune disease that causes the immune system to attack needed body tissues (“Lupus,” 2018). This specific type of lupus affects major functions of the body including the brain, lungs, skin, and kidneys. Lupus is commonly difficult to diagnose in humans due to its vague symptoms that mimic the symptoms of other major conditions (‘Lupus,” 2017). Presently, researchers are unaware of the origins

Lupus is a lifelong, autoimmune disease. This means that the immune system of a person with lupus cannot tell the difference between its own cells and what is foreign. This leads to the immune system attacking healthy tissue throughout the entire body.

Lupus is a chronic, lasts for a long time, inflammatory and autoimmune disease. Lupus is characterized by being autoimmune which is caused by antibodies made by the immune system that attacks the body and its tissues. Also, Lupus is a systemic disease. Systemic diseases in medicine mean:"affecting the whole body, or at least multiple organ systems."(1) Moreover, this diseases has a unique characteristic of flare-ups or relapses, when the disease shows severe symptoms, and remissions when the disease gets better and shows mild or no symptoms at all.(2)

Description: Lupus is an autoimmune disease which attacks the healthy body immune system. This immune disorder attacks the brain, kidneys, joints, skin, and other organs in the body.

Lupus is a disease that can damage any part of the body, whether skin, joints, or organs inside the human body. Having lupus means something goes wrong with the immune system, which is the part of the body that fights off viruses, bacteria, and germs. Autoimmune happens and your immune system cannot tell the difference between these foreigners, nor your body’s healthy tissues and creates autoantibodies that attack and destroy healthy tissue. Autoantibodies cause inflammation, pain, and damage in various parts. Lupus is also a disease that my reappear after curing and is not contagious through sexual contact and is not like or related to cancer. Lupus can become life-threatening and should always be treated by a doctor and most people with lupus can lead a full life, “research estimates that at least 1.5 million Americans have lupus.” Anybody can get infected with lupus, any race and ethnic groups

Imagine you have a normal life, a simple nine to five job, relax afterwards by going out with some friends or staying in to do some tidying up. Everything is easy and nothing is holding you back. Now, imagine doing all those same things while being in pain or with a visible rash across your face. You call out more often, have a hard time focusing on simple tasks such as cleaning, and socialize less often. This has become your new normal. Unfortunately, this is the crushing reality for those who suffer from the chronic symptoms associated with lupus. In the information to follow, it will discuss what lupus is and what it’s symptoms are, how to diagnose and treat lupus, and what can be done to live as normal a life as possible.

Lupus is an autoimmune inflammatory that occurs mostly in women. Lupus causes joint pain, multiple red lesions on the body. With time disorder can progress into a life-threatening issues involving the heart, kidneys, lungs and other vital organs. Lupus is disease in which the immune system fights against the body. The immune system is designed to fight against unwanted organisms and bacteria but does not attack its own body tissues. Lupus is a genetic disease that is inherited. There is no cause of the disease but is linked to genes and chromosomes. The disease can be triggered due to environmental factors. Such as: smoking, stress, infection, medication, antibiotics and much more. Lupus is hard to diagnose until there is damage to the

Most experts can agree that there are a number of factors that cause it; the causes of Lupus are from a combination of genetics and the environment. Sometimes people inherit what is called a “genetic predisposition” which means that they inherit the chance to eventually develop it. It is very hard to pinpoint one single source of cause that triggers Lupus like I mentioned before. Things in the environment like UV rays from the sun, or unrelated things like an infection or a pregnancy can trigger it. The symptoms of Lupus range from Extreme fatigue, headaches, photosensitivity, pain/swollen joints, and one clear indicator being a butterfly-shaped rash across the cheek or nose.

Lupus is an autoimmune disease that produces antibodies in the body. The antibodies in turn cause harm to the body in the form of

Lupus is still somewhat of a mystery to physicians and scientists today. Historically, the disease has stumped medical professionals. The first known discovery and identification of lupus, specifically systemic lupus erythematosus, was made by Hippocrates, a Greek physician, around the time of 400 BC. The disease became more well known after many years, and by the late 1700’s, two British dermatologists Robert Willan and Thomas Bateman had started to “use the term “lupus” to describe a destructive skin disease preferentially affecting the face and the nose” (Konya, 2016). Then the modern era of lupus began in 1923, when one doctor discovered four cases with similar symptoms. The physical details of the disease became more specific and by 1967, doctors were able to find a way to test for the antibodies that were associated with the disease. In the past, people thought the symptoms of lupus resembled a wolf bite, and some theorized the skin swelling and color changing was caused by werewolves. This theory has since been proven wrong, clearly. Because of this theory though, some people with the disease may have been wrongfully mistreated in the past. Today, lupus is a disease that allows people to receive help from the government under disability status. People with Lupus are not mistreated and in most places, are even protected by disability discrimination acts.

Lupus also known as Lupus Erythematosus is a long standing autoimmune disease. In an autoimmune disease the body immune system attacks itself. The inflammation that has develop by these attacks causes damage to the bodies tissue and organ. The frequently affected bodies tissue and organ are the brain, joints, skin, kidney, heart, lung, and blood vessel. Nevertheless, this disease is difficult to assess due to the widespread of affected age groups, ethnics, gender geography area and socioeconomic differences researcher and scientists cannot determine its origin. There is different form of lupus and the most common is SLE or systemic Lupus Erythematosus which affect many parts of the body, Discoid lupus erythematosus that causes skin rashes that doesn’t go away, Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus causes skin sores on parts of the body that are exposed to sun, Drug

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is a chronic autoimmune disease. The body makes autoantibodies and initiates the immune response against itself. There is no known cause or origin. It is seven times more common in females than males. (Ball, Bindler, & Cowen, 2015, p. 631) There is a suspicion that there is a genetic factor that causes a person to be predisposed to having Lupus. There is also a belief that it may be caused by an environmental factor that causes the immune system to respond to its own tissues. Lupus affects African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and Native Americans more than Caucasians. (Brescia, 2014) Lupus can affect multiple organ systems and mimic many other diseases. The patient

Lupus is a disease that can destroy any and every part of your body, for instance, your skin, joint, and even your organs. Lupus is a very tricky disease and no one knows what the cause of it is, the body natural defenses system is the immune system and with lupus, the immune system attacks healthy tissues instead of attacking only the damaged tissues. For example when you get things like a bacteria and viruses the body will kill both good and bad cells because it can’t tell the sick cells apart from the healthy cells. People who suffer from this disease experience a lot of pain. The disease is lifelong and has no cure however most people with lupus can control the symptoms and prevent severe damage to their organs. African American women are

But Lupus affects everyone differently. No rhyme or reason explains why some problems occur in one person and very different problems in another person.” (Thomas)

Systemic lupus erythematosus (more commonly known as lupus) is an autoimmune disease that affects more women than men, usually between ages 15 to 45. The cause is often unknown, although in some individuals, the condition may be drug-induced. The symptoms may differ from patient to patient, but commonly include a butterfly rash on the face, ulcerations on the mouth, nose, and vagina, loss of hair, thick scarring, changes in skin pigmentation, hives, welts, and color changes in the fingertips as a response to changes in temperature and stress (Raynaud's phenomena).