What are the differences between lupus and ordinary skin disease?

Lupus is a disease that has a high morbidity and its damage to human body usually firstly embodies in the surface of the skin. So many people mistake lupus as ordinary skin disease and see the doctors in dermatological department.

In the first, skin disease is due to internal and external factors which can lead to changes of its morphology, structure and function, finally it will produce pathological process and varying kinds of clinical manifestations. While systemic lupus erythematosus is a systemic immune disease with multiple damages and a variety of autoantibodies, besides erythema on the skin, it also has the symptoms of low fever, renal involvement, photoresponse and pain in the joints of the limbs.
In the second place, patient’s skin with erythema mainly spread in the shape of butterfly, while ordinary skin disease have different manifestations depend on different categories. For example, damage to the skin of urticaria patients is mainly caused by allergy, and together with red rash that will disappear after allergic reaction fade out. On the other hand, the rash caused by lupus has dark color and will not disappear easily.
In the last, treatments are different between ordinary skin disease and lupus: ordinary skin disease can be treated by topical creams and some oral drugs, while hormonotherapy and immunotherapy is needed to treat lupus. What’s worse, there is no good way to prevent this kind of disease except to protest it by daily tonic.
Above all, if you find any symptoms related to lupus, you should attach great importance on it and take treatments as soon as possible. You can also ask our specialists online to learn about more information.

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