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A 4 page paper which looks at the history, causes, symptoms and treatment of scleroderma. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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However, the first definitive mention of the disease dates from the middle of the 18th century, and concerns a woman whose symptoms included hardening and lack of warmness of the
skin. The treatment of the time included bleeding, warm milk baths, and doses of mercury: after a period of several months, the condition was reported as cured. However, scleroderma is
not mentioned again in medical texts until a hundred years later, when it was rediscovered by doctors in Strasbourg and Paris. By the late nineteenth century several different variants of
the disease had been identified, and it had also been associated with Reynauds Disease. According to Hicks (2009), the causes of scleroderma
are still not known: it is thought to be related to weakness in the autoimmune system. The two main types are localized and systemic sclerosis. The former affects only the
skin, whereas the latter affects the internal organs as well. The skin becomes first puffy and then thickened, so that the joints are uncomfortable: Hicks also states that problems with
swallowing are common. This is partly because the gullet muscles become thickened, and partly because of acid reflux which causes inflammation of the esophagus. Other forms of gastric problems can
occur, due to the effect of the disease on intestinal muscles. Heart and lungs may also be affected because of poor blood flow and fibrosis, and patients are at risk
of developing hypertension. Reynauds Disease, as mentioned previously, is also associated with scleroderma. Here, there is pain and sensation loss in the fingers,
because of the spasming of the small blood vessels in reaction to cold or stress. Hicks adds that women tend to be more prone to scleroderma than men, and that
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