Interview with Dr. Lozano and Diseases
Alejandro: When you got the lupus disease why does the immune system it's attacking itself instead of the disease?
Doctor: Lupus disease is a very difficult disease to diagnose because it have a lot of different manifestations in the body ,usually starts attacking the skin , you have like rash in the skin, in the cheeks, that is very comunary, you have a sign of the lupus disease, but it has the ability to damage the gastrointestinal system ,immunological system and immune system, and when it attacks the immune system what it happens is that our body starts, instead of defending our organism , to destroy itself. You have lupus and then you start with the ad immune manifestation, and what happens to the patient is that he starts to have a lot of infections, common infections, different ades , but something like that, you have a problem with the immune system where you can have more diseases more commonly, because you lack of your immune system.
Alejandro: How can psoriasis be prevented?
Doctor: Psoriasis is a disease mainly of the skin, you have reactions in the skin,you have a lot of areas like the elbows the knees where you have a lot of overgrown of the skin and kind of blisters, I think those are the most common manifestations I'm not so sure if you have symptoms like itching, that's not common but the characteristic of psoriasis is that you have skin reactions in the elbows where is the most common place. And how can it be prevented , well it is caused by stress , if the patient is in a lot of stress or he have a lot of things to do, or its a nervous person , also that kind of people with psychiatric problems, that is the kind of people that can have psoriasis, so how it can be prevented is to treat what triggers the disease, which is the stress, so if the person is a very uneasy person and tends to easily use the temper or is constantly living in a lot of stress, you can treat the patient whit an antidepressant and that is the way it can be prevented and that's it. It's not a disease that you can't really prevent because is also an inmune disease and you have like the damage in your inmune system.
Alejandro: What are the causes of vitiligo?
Doctor: The usual manifestation is the people that have different skin tones lie, white spots in the skin usually in the hands but it can't progress so it can be present in all the body. For example Michael Jackson , the problem of him started in the hand and that's why he start using the glove, and his problem kept progressing pans that is why he decided to take the treatment where he completely changed the color of his skin, it's not because he wanted to became white, it's because he haved that problem so that's the problem with vitiligo. The causes are also the stress emotional things and also is a problem that I would say that the real cause is unknown but it is triggered by stress.
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