Diseases More Vulnerable Attacking Women than Men

Sekainow.com Disease can indeed attack anyone and not indiscriminately. But in some circumstances, an illness has a higher severity if it occurs in women.

These are some examples of the disease :

• lupus

Lupus is an autoimmune disease that affects the skin, joints and many other organs. Anyone can be involved in lupus, but the data shows that 90 percent of the infected worldwide are women.

Symptoms of lupus include reddish spots like butterflies in the face, swelling of joints, muscle pain to fever for no apparent reason.

• Chronic fatigue syndrome

As the name implies, chronic fatigue syndrome is a disease that makes a person feel tired prolonged and can not be explained medically. The main symptoms are muscle pain, headache, swollen lymph nodes and pain when moving.

Women at risk of 3 to 5 times higher this disease than men, with the greatest risk is in women aged 40 to 59 years.

• multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis or MS is a disorder of the nervous system, especially in the spine, which can cause paralysis to loss of vision. There is currently no cure for MS.

Of the total of 2.1 million infected worldwide, three of the four infected are women. Women are also at risk of 2 to 3 times greater this congenital disease than men.

• Irritable bowel disease

Irritable bowel disease (IBS) is a disease that attacks the colon, so penegidapnya prone to abdominal pain, fullness, diarrhea and constipation for 3 consecutive months.

This disease affects about 3.5 million people in the United States and 65 percent of whom are women.

•  Sexually transmitted disease

There are approximately 19 million new sexually transmitted disease patients in the world each year, and women are more susceptible to severe complications. Some examples of complications are pelvic inflammatory disease, pregnancy wine, up to infertility.

This happens because a woman's vagina thinner skin than a man's penis, so that bacteria and viruses can infect more easily and leave traces of mucus such as chlamydia or gonorrhea disease.

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