Monday, August 3, 2015

Lupus Nephritis Contagious?

Lupus nephritis contagious? If how to prevent infection? This disease in the end is how was it? Many patients and their families will have such doubts. In fact, lupus nephritis is not contagious. Lupus nephritis is a relatively common multisystem autoimmune disease multiple organs due to cellular and humoral immune dysfunction, resulting in a variety of autoantibodies. It is an autoimmune disease, and it is not contagious, so patients and their families can be assured.

Want to learn more about lupus nephritis will be contagious, you must know the cause of lupus nephritis:

1. Hormones: Most women of childbearing age in SLE patients, male to female ratio of at least 1:7-9. Whether male and female patients blood estrone hydroxylated products are increased.

2, environment: sunlight and ultraviolet radiation can make SLE systemic and skin symptoms, sun allergies seen in 20-40% of patients. After the sun cheek, forehead, neck, chest, back, etc. erythema.

3, infection: application of electron microscope in the endothelial cells of lupus nephritis "viral inclusions", skin, vascular endothelial cells can be found within a similar inclusion bodies, some SLE patients that measles virus, rubella virus , parotid gland, EB virus antibody titers.

4, genetic: the incidence of lupus nephritis nephritis have a family tendency, the incidence rate of close relatives of patients 5-12%, the incidence of monozygotic twin lifetime (69%) much higher than foreign Oviparous high (3%), antinuclear antibodies The positive rate in patients with familial higher than normal.


Lupus nephritis contagious? Lupus nephritis primarily related to immune factors, genetic factors, and environmental factors. The fundamental cause of immune dysfunction. It is not caused by a variety of pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi, etc.) caused by the disease, it can not be spread from person to person. So patients do not have to worry.


If you have any questions you want advice, you can contact us by email: chinakidneyhospital@gmail.com or Tel: +8613633219293.

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