Sjögren's Syndrome Research Paper

GDSC1027 Diseases and Medicine

Term Paper

Wong Ka Ho 13205919

Topic: Sjögren's syndrome

Introduction:

Sjögren's syndrome,which was discovered by an ophthalmologist Henrik Samuel Conrad Sjögren,is an autoimmune disorder.It is also a persistent disease that will have long term effects on the patients and it cannot be cured in a short period of time but fortunately it is non-transmissible.The major group of people having this disease is the 40-60 age and 90% of them are women because of their relatively weak immune system.Because of the weak immune system,the misclassification of good cells by white blood cells makes the white blood cells become the autoantibody,which are called Anti-SSA autoantibodies to attack other good cells.There are two types of Sjögren's syndrome,primary and secondary.Primary Sjögren's syndrome occurs when the salivary and lacrimal

There are at least 3 seed viruses such as EB viruses, jumbo Bye-law brother viruses, HIV virus have the association with the Sjögren's syndrome,resulting in the production of immunoglobulins to attack the patients’ body.

Symptoms:

The two main symptoms of Sjogren's syndrome are the dry eyes and dry months. There are also other symptoms depends on each patient.

Dry eyes mean that the patients’ eyes will heat,itch and the tears are not enough.In this way,patients are afraid of sunlight,which will further heat their eyes.They also feel like there are sands in their eyes and it is uncomfortable.

Dry mouth mean that the patients’ mouth feel like that it is full of stuffs,making them difficult to swallow or speak. They need to drink water frequently in order to speak,to swallow solid foods and the teeth also turn black and fall off eventually.

Other symptoms include the respiratory problem,as the trachea is very dry,patients may get bronchitis and the lung inflammation,as well as chronic cough.In addition,as their immune system is weak,it is not easy to recover from