What Causes Lupus?
Lupus is medically explained as an autoimmune disease in which the immune system of the body will become hyperactive and attacks normal and healthy body tissue. It is usually resulted to symptoms such as inflammation, damages in joints, kidney failures, and heart and lung diseases.
But what really causes this one of the most feared diseases, is the main concern of the most affected countries. Doctors do not know the exact cause of lupus but most believed from both genetic and environmental stimuli.
Genetically speaking, lupus is known to be inherited by the family members because of the genetic predisposition to the illness. The disease will not show until it is triggered by some environmental factors.
Females have higher number of cases than in males which indicates that this can be triggered also by certain hormones such as estrogen which is the responsible in regulating the progression or the development of the spread of the disease to the whole body.
Extreme stress, exposure to ultraviolet light, usually from sunlight, smoking, sulfa and penicillin antibiotics, trichloroethylene compounds and infections such as cytomegalovirus (CMV), parvovirus, hepatitis C, and the Epstein-Barr virus are the environmental factors that can cause lupus symptoms.