University Health Network's Dr. Zahi Touma has hope for those living with lupus. — via healthing_ca healthing autoimmune doctorsorders
Lupus is an autoimmune disease where your immune system attacks your own organs. And we have different organs in our body. For instance, the skin, it’s an organ. If it goes to the skin, it gives you skin rash and hair loss. It can go to your heart, to your kidney. Your immune system is supposed to prevent you from infection — from viruses and so on. But with the lupus patient, it’s not working well, so it recognizes your internal organ as something new to your body and attacks the organ.
It can also go to the brain, affecting your mood, causing hallucinations, psychosis, stroke or severe headaches. Really, the manifestations with lupus are varied and depend on which organ that’s involved.
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