Lupus : Causes And Effects On The Human Body

     Lupus is a potentially life threatening disease that effects about 1.5 million Americans. Lupus can effect many different parts of the body. Lupus is a type of autoimmune system disorder in which the body cannot distinguish the difference between foreign antibodies and its own organs. So basically what happens is that the body ends up attacking its own organs thinking they are foreign substances. (The Lupus Foundation of America)

Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown cause that can affect virtually any part of the body. The medical term for Lupus is Systemic Lupus Erythematosus or better known as SLE. With Lupus there is a malfunction in some of the cells of the immune system. "In Lupus, the body overreacts to an unknown stimulus and makes to many antibodies, or proteins directed against body tissue. Thus, Lupus is called an autoimmune disease. ”#

Lupus is an autoimmune disease that attacks women between the ages of 15 and 40. It occurs less often in men than in women. The people affected by lupus vary depending on the country or region. In the US alone, the prevalence rate is highest among Asians of Hawaii, blacks of Caribbean origin, and Native Americans of the Sioux, Arapahoe, and Crow tribes. Lupus is a disease that affects the immune system. We can think of the immune system as an army within the body with hundreds of defenders (known as antibodies). They defend the body from attack by germs and viruses. In lupus, however, the immune system becomes overactive and creates antibodies that attack healthy tissues in the body, such as: the skin, kidneys, lungs, heart and brain.

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Approximately 1.5 million americans (5 million worldwide) live with lupus, but lupus is more common in women of African American and Native American than Caucasian women. More than 16,000 people are diagnosed with lupus each year. Everyone can get lupus but it’s mostly common in women and the specific type of women is African American women. Lupus is a systemic autoimmune disease driven by the inflammation in the immune system. Women of color are 2 to 3 times more likely to develop lupus than a Caucasian women. 90 percent of the people diagnosed with lupus are young women. Black women are diagnosed at much higher rates and are more likely to experience complications from the disease. There should me more research done, they should spend more

Lupus is known as “the cruel mystery” in the world of disease/medicine. 1.5 million Americans are currently diagnosed with Lupus, with the number possibly being a lot higher since it is one of the most difficult diseases to diagnose in the WORLD (5 Million some form of Lupus)

Lurking around the corner awaiting its next prey, Lupus will strike a person out of nowhere. Typically, Lupus searches for women and people of color. Lupus will aggressively attack the person’s body causing a profusely amount of pain, causing a ferocious load of fatigue, causing a domino effect of other disastrous maladies. Deceptive, Lupus masquerades as the other illnesses it induces; dubbing it the infamous “Great Imitator.”

Lupus… “What is it?” People ask me this question frequently and I reply with, “It’s an autoimmune disease that attacks different organs and parts of the body.” But lupus isn’t just that, it means much more to me than a disease.

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

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is an autoimmune disorder that cause the body to attack its own connective tissue. The diseases effects patients largely in the skin and is thought to be named after the fact that some patients have rashes that resemble a wolf. Lupus also is a disease that is uncommon, appearing in 0.1% of the population and a 9:1 ratio in retrospect of women to men who have the disease. A study of the disease was done by the university of Iowa in 2006 that compared the levels of protein in the blood of patients with Lupus to that of patients who didn’t. To go further, there were 30 participants in the trial and half of those thirty were patients without Lupus.

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is complex autoimmune disease caused by a combination of genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors. The body’s autoimmune cells fail to distinguish a diseased cell or foreign organism from its own healthy cells. Consequently, the autoimmune system attacks its own cells causing inflammation in multiple systems including; the kidneys, skin, heart, lungs, hematopoetic, and nervous system.

Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease marked by its effect on various parts of the body, including the joints, skin, blood, and kidneys. It is a condition in which the body's immune system attacks its own cells and tissues, resulting in pain, inflammation, and often damage to organs. Lupus involves the immune system. The immune system makes antibodies that work to protect the body against foreign substances like viruses and bacteria. Such foreign bodies are called antigens. When a person has lupus, his or her body is unable to determine the difference between antigens and the individual's cells and body tissues. As such, the immune system creates antibodies against the individual's own tissues. These antibodies are called autoantibodies. Depending on the type of lupus, a wide range of symptoms may be experienced, from rashes, hair loss, and achy, swollen joints to fever, anemia, and abnormal blood clotting. Though the disease can affect many parts of the body, individuals usually experience symptoms in only a few organs. There is no known cure for lupus. However,

Did you know that the word Lupus means “wolf” in Latin? This disease got its name because the rash that appeared on people’s faces caused by this disease looked like a wolf scratch or bite. In 1948 an LE cell was first discovered by Malcolm Hargraves, who was a hematologist from the Mayo Clinic. Ninety percent of the people that are diagnosed with this disease are females from ages 15-45.

First and foremost we must understand what lupus is. Lupus is an autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease is when the immune system turns against the body and diagnoses things as harmful that the body needs for normal function. This in turn causes inflammation and damage to the body tissues in various regions of the body. The fact that lupus isn’t specific to a particular area of the body it makes multiple

Seems Lupus is getting disobedient ... It’s time to teach it some discipline. But, before that you have to bring it in your life.