| Osteo Arthritis effects are seen not only in the joints | | | | lets the disease attack the healthy joints and the |
| but in other organ systems as well including the eye, | | | | tissues around it, allowing for the initiation of joint |
| skin, heart, lungs, and peripheral nerves. Since it can | | | | damage and inflammation. It then moves on to affect |
| also affect the organs in acute stages, the patients | | | | other bodily organs such as the skin, heart, and lungs. |
| can become anemic (low in red blood cells), develop | | | | This chronic, inflammatory disorder allows the body |
| dry mouth and eyes, and have inflamed spleen and | | | | system to attacks joints, which is both painful and |
| lining in the lungs. Although there may be numerous | | | | destructive and may create loss of mobility. |
| causes for it, the symptoms are the same. | | | | It can be known to occur due to a disorder of the |
| There is however a ray of hope for people suffering | | | | immune system and usually continues throughout life |
| from this epidemic. Psoriatic arthritis is a chronic | | | | with periods of remission (characterized by total |
| destructive joint disorder that comes and goes as it | | | | absence of disease symptoms) and exacerbation |
| pleases. | | | | (with increasing severity of disease). |
| Many people today suffer from joint pain and in fact | | | | Sometime it can be occurring when the body`s own |
| other subtle signs may be caused by this. The onset | | | | natural fighting system mistakenly attacks the |
| of it usually start slowly. If you've heard about it, you | | | | synovium and then produces an immunogenic |
| would most likely have associated it with older patients, | | | | response to some constituent of its own tissue, in this |
| and with a lot of body pain. It is a disease that attacks | | | | case, the joints. |
| the joints in the body, causing inflammation and pain. | | | | Osteo arthritis is a systemic disease, meaning it |
| It is also an autoimmune disease, which means that the | | | | affects not just the joints but many other parts of the |
| body's immune system is not working as it should and | | | | body as well. |