What is Lupus? Symptoms | causes | Types |

What is Lupus?

Many Doctors believe that lupus develops in response to a combination of factors both inside and outside the body, including hormones, genetics, and environment.
Systemic lupus erythematosus is also called simple lupus, Lupus is an auto-immune disease. It means that your immune system eats healthy cells and tissues by mistake. It can damage many parts of the body, including the joints, skin, kidneys, heart, lungs, blood vessels, and brain. Nine out of ten people who have systemic lupus erythematosus are women. While men and women both produce estrogen, its production is much greater in females. Many women have more lupus symptoms before menstrual periods and/or during pregnancy when estrogen production is high. This may indicate that estrogen somehow regulates the severity of lupus.
An examination of a sample of your urine may show an increased protein level or red blood cells in the urine, which may occur if lupus has affected your kidneys. Anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) test. A positive test for the presence of these antibodies produced by your immune system indicates a stimulated immune system.

Symptoms

Common symptoms of lupus are chest pain, painful and swollen joints, hair loss, mouth ulcers, red rashes commonly on face, swollen lymph nodes & fever.
Due to the variety of symptoms and organ system involvement with SLE, its severity in an individual must be assessed in order to successfully treat SLE. Mild or remittent disease may, sometimes, be safely left untreated. Most people with lupus develop the disease between the ages of 15-44.
Types of Lupus

• Systemic lupus 
• Erythematosus

 The most common form of lupus is systemic lupus, erthematosus lupus affect skin and can cause different type of rashes, and makes rash area disks and circles.
Drug-induced lupus is more common in men because they take these drugs more often; however, not everyone who takes these drugs will develop drug-induced lupus. Lupus like symptoms usually disappear within six months after these medications are stopped.