Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that composes many factors that contribute to the manisfestations of SLE. These factors include genetic and epigenetic regulation of gene expression, environmental factors, hormones, and a dysfunction in the immune system.…
Osteoarthritis has to do with the loss of articular cartilage, the development of bony spurs at the joint margin, also known as osteophytes, it involves the inflammation of the synovial membrane and alterations to the subchondral bone. The order of which the changes in the bone, synovium and cartilage are influenced on the causes for osteoarthritis, these differ in each tissues effect on surrounding tissues. The pathophysiology of osteoarthritis has subtypes including inflammatory to a varying extent, pain due to tissue damage, and pain at rest.…
Common causes of enteric reactive arthritis are preceding infections attributable to Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, and Yersinia.…
Crohn's disease affects an individual's immune system by making it weaker and unable for the immune cells to attack the foreign viruses and bacteria. It can begin with taking antibiotics that depletate the natural bacteria in the body, resulting in an increased resistance to the point of which the immune cells take down both the good and bad bacteria until the resistance becomes too strong, and the body is unable to protect itself from either. The inflammation results in diarrhea, fatigue, vomiting, and fibrosis.…
Andrane’: First let’s discuss how arthritis affects the body and what each and every person can do to prevent this from happening. Arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation of the joints. The disease has unknown causes and does not have a cure, talk to…
1. Lupus is one of many disorders of the immune system known as autoimmune diseases. In autoimmune diseases, the immune system turns against parts of the body it is designed to protect. This leads to inflammation and damage to various body tissues. Lupus can affect many parts of the body, including the joints, skin, kidneys, heart, lungs, blood vessels, and brain. Although people with the disease may have many different symptoms, some of the most common ones include extreme fatigue, painful or swollen joints (arthritis), unexplained fever,…
Crohn’s disease is a disease that affects between 500,000-700,000 people nationwide. Crohn’s disease was named after Dr. Burrill B. Crohn who first described the disease in 1932. He described Crohn’s disease as a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract. This disease belongs to a larger group of conditions referred to as Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD). Crohn’s disease causes inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract which leads to abdominal pain, diarrhea and in some cases, malnutrition. Crohn’s disease can be a debilitating disease with no cure but with the proper diet and education people can live with little disruption to their lives. Crohn’s disease can also affect people on many different levels. People with Crohn’s disease often present differently than the next patient with Crohn’s disease so knowing how to manage your symptoms is key to your overall health when dealing with this disease.…
The effect that crohn's disease may have on one's immune system can be seen in the gastrointestinal tract. When one has a triggering event of some sort like an infection, it causes the body's immune response in the GI tract to become confused. Something like food or good bacteria in the intestines are then seen as a threat to the body. The body begins to attack these "foreign" bacteria, creating an excess of white blood cells. This excess of white blood cells in the intestines is what causes the great deal of inflammation. The other harmful side of this is the bi-products of the white blood cells could be harmful to the body, possibly causing…
Many people look past these rare diseases as if they are simply a myth but they are but all too real. This disease is called Systemic Lupus erythmatosus, but is called Lupus for short. An autoimmune disease such as Lupus weakens your body’s immune system response. Normally, the immune system helps protect the body from harmful substances. But in patients with an autoimmune disease, the immune system can 't tell the difference between harmful substances and healthy ones. This specific autoimmune disease has a long list of effects on the human body. There currently is no cure for SLE but there are treatments for which specific symptoms you show of the disease.…
Lupus erythematosus is a disease where a person’s immune system attacks the body’s own organs and tissues. It causes inflammation of connective tissue which holds different structures of the body in place. This disease is believed to be an autoimmune disorder. There are two types of lupus erythematosus which are discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).…
Definition: Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disorder. It affects the small joints of hands and feets, and the lining of joints that results in painful swelling. Swelling can cause bone erosion and joint deformity. RA is an autoimmune disorder, in which the immune system falsely attacks own body's tissues. Rheumatoid arthritis not only causes a joint problem, but it can also affect the other organs of the body such as the skin, eyes, lungs, and blood vessels (Miller, 2014).…
Lupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease that can damage any parts of the body (skin, joints, and/or organs inside the body). Lupus is a disease that flares up and goes into remission. With Lupus, something go wrong with a person’s immune system, which is the part of the body that fights of viruses, bacteria, and germs. Lupus predominantly affects woman more than men, and typically effects multiply organs in the body.…
Gout is a type of arthritis caused by a buildup of uric acid crystals in the joints. Uric acid is a breakdown product of purines that are part of many foods we eat.…
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that can cause swelling, stiffness and pain of joints, primarily in an individual’s small joints in their hands and feet. An autoimmune disease is the result of antibodies from a person’s immune system attacking their own healthy cells. Many autoimmune diseases act in various different manners and one of the rare similarities is the ability to clinically diagnose a disease based on the presence of autoantibodies in a serum. When these autoantibodies begin to seek out and attack healthy cells or tissue, the individual will suffer from inflammation. “In rheumatoid arthritis, the focus of the inflammation is in the synovium, the tissue that lines the joint” (Ruderman & Tambar, 2013) yet, the chemicals…
The immune system of our body is a collection of cells, tissues and molecules which work together to protect the body against any attack from foreign bodies like bacteria, viruses, fungi etc. Autoimmune disease occurs when the body's immune system fails and starts producing antibodies which react against some of the body's own tissues. This can have a lot of effects on the body and can even prove to be fatal in many cases. It is said to be the 3rd most common disease in USA. It is said to affect one in thirty one Americans.…