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How can you tell if it's systemic or discoid lupus? |
I didn't know anything about lupus. And one of my So, can someone tell me. How can you know if someone get those discoid or systemic lupus by its skin??? I thought that those are different type of lupus. And Discoid is the least threatening one, and also only affect skin? BUt now i read that systemic also affected skin?? So how can you tell which rash is belong to systemic and the other belong to discoid?? Is it the similar lupus? That can affect kidney,liver and so on?? Please help me.. I'm so confuse about this lupus thingy! Lupus isn't a 'thingy', it's a serious auto immune disease. Discoid lupus isn't life threatening and only affects the skin. It can come in several different forms/rashes. SLE or Systemic Lupus has the signature 'butterfly' facial rash associated with it. Not all people with SLE have a 'butterfly' rash on their face but many of them do. The butterfly rash isn't associated with discoid lupus. SLE can affect all systems of the body including all organs. Organ involved Lupus is the most serious kind and can be fatal. The immune system of people with Lupus is miswired and attacks a persons normal cells causing inflammation and destruction at the cellular level. This causes joint pain, swelling, kidney, heart, liver, brain problems as well as a long list of other symptoms. The disease called discoid lupus erythematosus only affects the skin, although similar discoid skin lesions can occur in the serious disease called systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Only about 10% of all patients with Discoid lupus erythematosus will go on to develop the multi-organ disease SLE. |
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