About Lupus Eritomatosus Sistemik (LES)

Lupus is the common designation of a disorder called Lupus Erythematosus.

In simple terms, a person can be said to suffer from the disease Lupus Erythematosus when the body becomes allergic to itself. Lupus is a term from the Latin word for wolf.

This is due to this disease generally have a butterfly-shaped rash or a red rash on the cheek butterfly similar in cheek wolf, but white.

This disease in medical science called Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), namely when the disease has invaded the entire human body or internal system. In the science of immunology or immune, the disease is the opposite of cancer or HIV / AIDS. In lupus, the body into overreacting to the stimulus of something foreign and making too many antibodies or some kind of protein that actually directed against the body's own tissues. Thus, Lupus is called an autoimmune disease (immune disease with excessive).

This type of lupus disease has three forms, the first of cutaneous lupus, often called discoid that affect the skin. Second, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), which attacks the body's organs such as skin, joints, lungs, blood, blood vessels, heart, kidney, liver, brain, and nerves. Third, Drug Induced Lupus (DIL), arises because the use of certain drugs. After use is stopped, symptoms will generally disappear.

and usually odipus (people living with lupus) will avoid things that can make the disease relapsed with:

Avoid stress
Keeping indirect sunlight
reduce the excessive workload
avoiding the use of certain medications.

odipus can checked by a doctor observer on this disease, a specialist in internal medicine hematology consultation, Rheumatology, kidney, hypertension, allergy immunology, if lupus can be insurmountable, medication regularly, take regular medication that is given by a physician (which is usually taken for life) , odipus will be able to live like normal people

The body has immunity to attack the disease and keeping

healthy. However, what happens if it attacks the immune organs
a healthy body. Lupus disease allegedly related to the immunological system
the excess.

This disease is quite mysterious. Doctors sometimes confuse the diagnosis
this disease. His name is a bit unique, LUPUS.
Lupus is Latin for "coyotes". The term has since become known

about a century ago. Initially, patients with this disease thought to have
skin disorders, in the form of redness around the nose and cheeks. Red blotches on the face and arms, heat and fatigue

prolonged, hair loss, swollen joints and often arise sprue. This disease not only affects the skin, but also can
affects nearly all organs in the body.
The symptoms of the disease known as Systemic Lupus Eritomatosus
(LES) aka Lupus. Eritomatosus means reddish. whereas systemic
significant widespread control every aspect of the organs. The term is called the LES
or Lupus.

Number of patients with lupus is not too much. According to literature data, in
United States found 14.6 to 50.8 per 100,000. In Indonesia
can be found about 50,000 sufferers. Lupus disease is still very common for the community.

Having examined the causes of lupus because of heredity and environment.
This disease actually affects women of childbearing age until the age of 50 years.
However, there are also men who experience it. Experts suspect the disease
is associated with the hormone estrogen.


Because lupus affects women infertile, often lead to various aspects
of health. For example the relationship with the pregnancy that led to
abortion, fetal development or the baby died at birth.

However, this could have happened otherwise. That is, instead of pregnancy can
exacerbate the symptoms of Lupus. Common symptoms of lupus appear as pregnancy or after childbirth.

Complete recovery from this disease, it seems difficult. Physicians were more focused on the medication that are focused sementara.Lebih to prevent spread of the disease and not attack the body's vital organs

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