Lupus is
an unfamiliar disease to many. When people catch this disease, some may
have the doubt that whether Lupus is a contagious disease. The answer
is, you’ll not get Lupus from another person, and you won’t pass this disease to anyone else.
Although Lupus
appears in the forms of symptoms such as skin rash, red spots on skin,
spots or patches on legs, sores of mouth, nose and vagina, facial
discoloration and hair loss, it can’t be passed through sexual or normal contact. People don’t need to worry about the contagiousness of the disease.
So how
do people get Lupus? One key point to learn is that Lupus is an
autoimmune disease. People with this disease has an overactive immune
system. Normally, the immune system protects our body by producing
antibodies to attack foreign body. With Lupus, however, the immune
system cann’t distinguish between the body’s own cells and that of foreign body. Consequently, the immune system wrongly produce antibodies that attack the body’s cells, causing damages to organs and tissues both internally and externally.
Presently, the
treatment for Lupus starts from controlling the overactive immune
system and relieving tissue damages and symptoms of the patients. Many
medications, such as glucocorticoids, immunosuppressive medicines, are
often prescribed based on the patients’ illness condition to treat the disease.
Some newest techniques, such as plasma exchange and immunoadsorption,
can remove the circulating harmful immune substances in blood
artificially, relieve overall symptoms and organ damages.
The above
is about whether Lupus is contagious. Hope the information is of help
for you. If people get Lupus, scientifically learning about this disease
and timely receiving proper treatment are important. If you have other
concerned question about Lupus, you may leave us a message in the form
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