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