It is an incurable disease that consists of the immune system disorder, which is designed to combat all those substances that the body does not recognize and represents a threat of infection, thus protecting the cells and tissues of our body that are healthy. In a person with lupus, the action of the immune system acts contrary to normal.
This is how lupus is an autoimmune disease, where the immune system itself produces antibodies (cells of the immune system) that attack (erroneously) the cells and tissue of the body that are healthy.
Consequently, many parts of the body are damaged, causing inflammation and damage to tissues in organs, joints and muscles, that is, it can affect fever, muscle pain, hair loss, red skin rashes, sensitivity, fatigue. extreme, mouth ulcers and swelling in the legs and around the eyes, skin, heart, lungs, brain, blood vessels and even joints.
Lupus can affect anyone. However, different investigations have revealed that this disease affects mostly women, who are of childbearing age (between 20 and 40 years of age), because the consumption of birth control pills can hasten the onset of the disease, in these women who are genetically predisposed.
Similarly, it has been shown that this disease attacks Caucasian women to a lesser extent and, otherwise, it attacks mostly Hispanics, Asians, African-Americans and Native Americans. Being Hispanics and African Americans more likely to suffer from severe forms of lupus.
On the other hand, it has been discovered that this disease occurs to a greater extent in African-American women, compared to whites.
The cause of this disease is still unknown, but different researchers affirm that the individual's genes play a very important role, although these are not the only determinants of the development of the disease, since different factors contribute.
In that sense, there are several types of lupus:
The symptoms of this disease are highly variable in each case, the most common being pain and swelling in the joints, fever, muscle pain, hair loss, red skin rashes, tenderness, extreme tiredness, mouth ulcers and swelling in the legs and around the eyes.
