The Prevention and Treatment Principles of Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

     Lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease characterized by acute and chronic inflammation of various tissues of the body. Autoimmune diseases are illnesses that occur when the body's tissues are attacked by its own immune system.
     The immune system is a complex system within the body that is designed to fight infectious agents, such as bacteria and other foreign microbes. One of the ways that the immune system fights infections is by producing antibodies that bind to the microbes. People with lupus produce abnormal antibodies in their blood that target tissues within their own body rather than foreign infectious agents. These antibodies are referred to as autoantibodies.
1. Prevention of Lupus erythematosus (SLE)
     1. You should set up the optimistic emotion, take correctly treat to the disease, establish the confidence of conquer disease, keep your life rule, pay attention to combining exertion and rest, proper rest, to prevent infection.
     2. Remove all kinds of causes, including a variety of possible within drugs, chronic lesions such as infection, avoid excitant medicine for external use only, and all external stimulus.
     3. Avoid exposure to sunlight and ultraviolet (uv) light irradiation, especially in the activity, when need to add the sun drugs such as quinine ointment, compound titanium dioxide ointment, 3% and 15% of ammonia benzoic acid ointment, etc., and other such as cold, X-ray exposure can also cause the disease, too much can not be ignored.
     4. Hydralazine, procaine, penicillamine, antibiotics and sulphonamide to reasonable action.
     5, patients should be sterilization, activity need to avoid pregnancy, if there is kidney function damage or multi-system damage, suitable for early therapeutic abortion.
2. The principle of treatment to Lupus erythematosus (SLE)
     1. The doctors should explain the condition to the patients and strengthen confidence to cure the disease and accept periodic review activily. The patients should pay attention to good rest and avoid infection, vaccination, pregnancy, and surgery.
     2. The patients should avoid to sunlight or ultraviolet light, strong photoelectric and X-ray irradiation and take light-resistant measures。At the same time, patients should avoid the use of photosensitive drug, such as sulfa, grams of urine thiamethoxam, phenol thiazine medicine, etc.
     3. Avoid overwork, have rest as more as possible, eat easy digestive food of high quantity of heat.
     4. Internal medicine general using quinine chloride or small amounts of cortical hormone , vitamin c and other treatment. System of rendering should be preferred cortical hormone, and should be adequate and continuous application, using immune inhibitors and tripterygium wilfordii when necessary. With multiple organ damage, severe symptoms and curative effect of corticosteroids claim with plasma exchange therapy may be considered.
     5. Topical therapy available cortical hormone ointment, quinine ointment substandard cha.
    

6. Support treatment and symptomatic treatment of each viscera lesions. Systemic lupus erythematosus with systemic symptom should go to the physicians to make a diagnosis and give treatment, lest bungle illness.