Initial symptoms of lupus erythematosus

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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a serious connective tissue disease involving skin, blood, bone, joint, liver, kidney, heart, brain and other organs. Uremia often occurs in late stage, which is life-threatening. Early lupus erythematosus has an ideal treatment, even can be cured, so early detection, early diagnosis is the key to cure the disease. Let's talk about the initial symptoms of lupus erythematosus

Initial symptoms of lupus erythematosus

Lupus erythematosus early performance is not too obvious, so it is difficult to control the disease, but recently the prevalence of the elderly also has an increasing trend. The onset of lupus erythematosus is mostly in spring. The first symptom of most patients is bright red rash on the face, which is limited to both sides of the cheek and bridge of the nose. The edge is clear, and the rash looks like a butterfly, commonly known as butterfly shaped erythema.

This kind of skin rash also has photosensitive performance, after outdoor sun exposure skin rash color deepens, edema aggravates. Touch the edge of erythema with your hand, there is a soft and hard feeling, patients often do not itch. The appearance of this rash is similar to other allergic skin diseases on the face, such as cosmetic dermatitis caused by cosmetic allergy. But although the skin rash of cosmetic dermatitis also has photosensitive performance, erythema often does not involve the bridge of the nose, touch the edge of erythema, there is no soft or hard feeling, and patients with cosmetic dermatitis have obvious itching.

In addition, for early patients, there will be frostbite on the back of the hand. There are edema erythema of different sizes and irregular shapes on the back of both hands, which are symmetrically distributed. Generally, there is no ulceration, no itching, and burning pain. It is called erythema multiforme. This kind of rash is not affected by the season and exists all the year round. Chilblain often occurs in winter with ulceration and obvious itching.

matters needing attention

Avoid sunlight, especially for those who are sensitive to sunlight. Go out should pay attention to sunscreen, avoid using photosensitive drugs, such as phenothiazine, hydrochlorothiazide, sulfonamides and griseofulvin. Avoid overwork, acute or active SLE should stay in bed. Avoid pregnancy, should not take contraceptives, renal function damage or multi system damage contraceptive failure, early treatment of abortion.