SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS

What is Systemic Lupus Erythematous?

It is an autoimmune disease. In this disease, the immune system of the body mistakenly attacks healthy tissue. It can affect the skin, joints, kidneys, brain, and other organs.

It is characterized by antibodies to nuclear and cytoplasmic antigens, multisystem inflammation, protean clinical manifestations, and a relapsing and remitting course.

SLE is a chronic disease that can have phases of worsening symptoms that alternate with periods of mild symptoms. Most people with SLE are able to live a normal life with treatment. The seriousness of SLE can range from mild to life-threatening.

The term lupus has been used to identify a number of immune diseases that have similar clinical presentations and laboratory features, but SLE is the most common type of lupus. People are often referring to SLE when they use the term lupus. 

It is most commonly seen in women — typically between the ages of 15 and 45. More than 90% of cases of SLE occur in women, frequently starting at childbearing age. 

What are the causes of SLE?

The exact cause for lupus is unknown. Although, it is thought to be an autoimmune disease, lupus occurs when your immune system attacks healthy tissue in your body. It's likely that lupus results from a combination of your genetics and your environment.

Possible factors that could cause lupus can include:

1. Hormonal changes: SLE affects women more than men. Women also may experience more severe symptoms during pregnancy and with their menstrual periods. Both of these observations have led some medical professionals to believe that the female hormone oestrogen may play a role in causing SLE. However, more research is still needed to prove this theory.

2. Environmental factors: Environmental triggers can include:

3. ultraviolet rays

4. certain medications

5. viruses

6. physical or emotional stress

7. trauma

8. Genetics: There may be a genetic factor to lupus. If you have family members who have lupus, your risk of the disease is increased. 

Signs & Symptoms

Symptoms vary from person to person, and may come and go. Everyone with SLE has joint pain and swelling at some time. Some develop arthritis. SLE often affects the joints of the fingers, hands, wrists, and knees.

Other common symptoms include:

• Chest pain when taking a deep breath.

• Fatigue.

• Fever with no other cause.

• General discomfort, uneasiness, or ill feeling (malaise).

• Hair loss.

• Weight loss.

• Mouth sores.

• Sensitivity to sunlight.

• Skin rash -- A "butterfly" rash develops in about half the people with SLE. The rash is mostly seen over the cheeks and bridge of the nose. It can be widespread. It gets worse in sunlight.

• Swollen lymph nodes. 

Other symptoms and signs depend on which part of the body is affected:

• Brain and nervous system -- Headaches, weakness, numbness, tingling, seizures, vision problems, memory and personality changes

• Digestive tract -- Abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting

• Heart -- Valve problems, inflammation of heart muscle or heart lining (pericardium)

• Lung – Build-up of fluid in the pleural space, difficulty breathing, coughing up blood

• Skin -- Sores in the mouth

• Kidney -- Swelling in the legs

• Circulation -- Clots in veins or arteries, inflammation of blood vessels, constriction of blood vessels in response to cold (Raynaud phenomenon)

• Blood abnormalities including anaemia, low white blood cell or platelet count

Types

1. Cutaneous lupus erythematosus

2. Drug-induced lupus

3. Neonatal lupus 

Homoeopathic Treatment for SLE

SLE can be treated in homoeopathy. It requires a regular treatment. The process of curing and reversing the connective tissue disorder is very gradual. It is generally widespread all over the body, so it requires time to get cured. Homoeopathy has remedies that reverse the process of connective tissue.

Homoeopathy will provide better health conditions for sure. You will be able to avoid side effects of immune suppressive drugs and will be having better and better health day by day with homoeopathy.

BRAHMA MADHURYA HOMOEOPATHIC CLINIC goals to remove the remove symptoms of SLE along with its root cause. The individualised homoeopathic medicines will be selected by the expert doctors              homoeopathic medicines will help you to overcome SLE along with improving the general health.