healthy lifestyle tips-Lupus disease is difficult to detect because its symptoms often resemble other diseases. Symptoms appear between one patient and another patient is also different so the disease is also known as a disease of a thousand faces.
"Indeed, there are no symptoms in the disease lupus. Lupus is attacking all organs of the body, and many patients with lupus attacked her vital organs," said medical specialist in hematology and oncology medical consultant, Zubairi Djoerban, in Jakarta, Thursday (6/5/2015 ).
However, the patient can do saluri (realize lupus itself) with regard many symptoms ever appear in lupus patients. The initial symptoms are pain that usually appear in the joints or bones, prolonged fever or high heat is not due to infection, often feel tired, anemia, chest pain when inhaling a deep breath, to kidney disorders such as kidney leaks, and protein out a lot through the urine ,
Beware also of symptoms that appear on the body, such as skin often, red rash, red spots appear on the face which is shaped like a butterfly, hair loss, fingertip bluish or pale colored, and canker sores intermittent.
Other symptoms are sensitive to sunlight, stroke, weight loss, seizures, to have a miscarriage for pregnant women. Symptoms in lupus patients usually occurs more than one, from mild to severe.
"If there are some of these symptoms, see a doctor specialist in internal medicine. Doctors and nurses also have to be skilled diagnosis of lupus. If it's too late, can cause death," said Zubairi, who is also adviser to Lupus Foundation of Indonesia (YLI) it.
Lupus is an autoimmune disease that attacks all organs of the body. Human form antibodies are useful to protect the body from viruses, bacteria, or bacteria. However, in lupus patients, antibody production is not normal or excessive.
These antibodies attack it no longer serves the virus to bacteria in the body, but attacks the body's own cells and tissues. Lupus were until now not known with certainty.