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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
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By Dexter Bedd
You're immune system is an incredibly sophisticated operation ran inside your body to help keep you safe and healthy. The immune system can be looked at as a sort of CIA in your body. There are different sectors within the CIA, but they all work together to keep you intact. Although, what if you had a situation where there was a covert group working within your CIA but it was so secretive that their own men wouldn't know who they are? You would possibly run into a situation where their own men would attack them. That does occur in your own body sometimes if you have lupus. Systemic lupus erythmatosus (SLE) or lupus can be a fatal disease. What occurs is your immune system's white-blood cells, that usually identify friendly or hostile matters in your body, incorrectly determine status. The white-blood cells consider your organs to be hostile. Lupus usually harms the skin, joints, blood vessels, liver, kidneys, lungs, heart and nervous system. The attacks to the body's cells and tissues cause tissue damage and inflammation. Throughout the disease the person inflicted will go through periods of illness called flares and through remissions when they feel |
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