Treatment is most often cortisone type drugs, to suppress the over active immune system. However, this is turn suppress's the already compromised immune system. Sometimes this disease is so aggressive, that chemotherapy drugs such as cytoxin are used to further suppress the immune system . Lupus can affect the joints, red blood cells and skin. One symptom is loss of hair on the face, across the nose and cheeks.
Treatment is similar to that of hemolyic anemia.
Lupus generally affects females more than males. The symptoms of uvietis generally are a drying and reddening of the eye, starting with a minor eye irritation. Again, the body over reacts with antigens in the eye, where the body begins to destroy the good cells. The result is inflammation of the eye and eye tissue. This is a congenital or acquired disorder of the lymphatic system resulting in fat and protein malabsorption, with a protein-loosing enteropathy.