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COLLAGEN DISEASES – INTRODUCTION

Collagen diseases are a group of disorders where widespread inflammation of the connective tissue of various organs leads to generalised disease of many organs.

Some of these conditions are common, some rare. Most respond to non-specific treatment with cortisone, which relieves the inflammation rather than curing the disease.

Systemic (Lupus) Erythematosus is a long and difficult-to-say diagnosis and so it is usually abbreviated to SLE. Few people have heard of it, yet it is now recognised to be as common as rheumatoid arthritis.

The cause is unknown although the theory most commonly accepted is that it is an auto-immune disease. In these disorders, the body, as it were, develops an allergy to its own tissues and antibodies to those tissues are formed in the immune system.

These antibodies “lock on to” the tissues in an attempt to destroy them and this results in inflammation. Rheumatoid arthritis and several other diseases are thought to be auto-immune in nature.

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