Symptoms of this disorder include a heavy or rounded body with thin limbs, along with wasting of the muscles. Sometimes increased body hair will appear. The anemia in hemolytic anemia is caused by the bodies over reacting to an antigen, which in turn can attach itself to the red blood cells. The body then begins to destroy is own life supporting red blood cell supply. This most often affects young adults, and females are affected more often than males.
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.