Disease lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease mediated by the immune system, which this system should protect the body from various diseases attacking the body opposite itself. Lupus disease caused by excessive antibody production. These antibodies rather than attacking the virus, germs or bacteria that enter the body, it attacks the immune system cells and tissues themselves. To diagnose this disease with certainty, needed a blood test or skin biopsy. Both to examine antibodies that arise when lupus is active.
Lupus disease usually attacks women productive. Although people with lupus facial skin and other body part appears red spots, but the disease is not contagious. Sometimes we underestimate the pain in the joints, all organs of the body feels sick or has abnormalities in the skin, or body feels tired and sensitive to prolonged sunlight. These are some of the symptoms of lupus.
Factors that allegedly was part of developing the disease Lupus are environmental factors, such as exposure to sunlight, stress, some drugs, and viruses. Therefore, for people with lupus are encouraged out of the house before 09:00 or after 16:00 o'clock. And when traveling, patients put on sun block or sun screen (protecting the skin from the sun) on the skin will be exposed.
There are three types of lupus, namely:
1. Discoid lupus, lupus skin manifestations of some types of skin disorders. Including the most widely attacked.
2. Lupus medicine, arising from drug side effects and will heal itself with drug-related discharge. Commonly associated with the use of drugs hydralazine (drug hypertension) and procainamide (to treat heartbeat irregular).
3. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (LES), can cause complications such as lupus brain, lung lupus, lupus blood vessels of the fingers or toes, skin lupus, lupus kidney disease, lupus heart, blood lupus, lupus muscle, retina lupus, lupus arthritis, and others.