Your blood vessels can become damaged by Behçet’s disease, an uncommon ailment. This can lead to issues with many bodily parts, including your eyes.
This disease is persistent (long-term). However, you might experience remissions, which are times when your symptoms disappear. Unfortunately, Behçet’s disease has no known treatment, but there are ways to control it.
Behçet’s disease can affect everyone, however some people are more susceptible than others. If you are Middle Eastern or Asian and in your 20s or 30s, you might be in risk of Behçet’s disease.
Behçet’s disease affects the eyes in about 3 out of every 4 patients. Blurred vision, pain, and redness are a few examples of these symptoms.
Many Behçet’s disease patients also develop sores on their mouths, genitalia, or skin. Blood clots, swelling in the brain and spinal cord (meningitis), and issues with the digestive system, such as diarrhoea or abdominal pain, are additional severe complications of Behçet’s disease.
The majority of Behçet’s disease symptoms are brought on by blood vessel inflammation. Typically, inflammation occurs when your immune system is battling an infection. Your immune system attacks your blood vessels as a result of Behçet’s disease. This may result in issues including discomfort and edoema in various body locations.
Experts do not know why this occurs. A gene (HLA-B51) that affects the immune system and is present in people with Behçet’s disease is possible. This response could also be brought on by bacteria, viruses, or something else in the environment.
You cannot transmit Behçet’s disease to someone else if you already have it.
Behçet’s disease cannot be diagnosed by a single test. Symptoms are typically used to diagnose a person. Due to the fact that symptoms do not always occur at the same time, diagnosing might be challenging for doctors. There are additional illnesses with comparable symptoms.
Tell your doctors right once if you experience any Behçet’s disease symptoms, particularly your eye doctor. It can be beneficial for your doctor to have a record of your symptoms to help with diagnosis. Write down your symptoms and the times they occur, then give your doctor this information.
There is no treatment for Behçet’s illness. However, there are therapies that can stop significant issues and lessen your pain.
Corticosteroids, which reduce swelling, pain, and inflammation, are among these. Other medications that regulate your immune system, Resting when you have symptoms and Moderate exercise like walking when you do not have symptoms.
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