Behcet's syndrome is a multi-systemic disease, chronic, characterized by mouth ulcers, genital lesions and eye lesions. At some people appear arthritis, skin problems, inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, brain and spinal cord. The disease was discovered in 1973 by Dr. Hulusi Behçet, a dermatologist in Turkey.

This is common in the Middle East, Japan and Asian countries where the syndrome affects more men, and tends to develop especially in the second - the third decade of life, but may be encountered at other ages. Researchers do not yet know the causes of this disease, but it is believed that genetic and environmental factors have an important role in triggering it. The disease is not contagious, that is not transmitted between people.

Causes - Inflammation: Most Behcet's disease symptoms are caused by inflammation of the blood. The inflammation of vessels is a characteristic of the body when attacked, and is marked by these signs: pain and local heat.

Doctors think that an autoimmune reaction would cause inflammation of blood vessels, but do not know what triggers them. A normal immune system protects the body conditions of infection and disease and removes harmful foreign substances like germs that enter the body. In an autoimmune reaction, the immune system mistakes and attack the body's own components.

Genetic and environmental factors - Are thought to be hereditary, and some bacteria or viruses could trigger this disease.

Behcet's disease symptoms - Symptoms of Behcet's syndrome vary from person to person another. Some have mouth ulcers, others have a more severe vision loss. They show periods of remission and reactivation. The 5 common symptoms of the disease are: -mouth ulcers; -genital ulcers; -skin problems; -impaired different parts of the eye; -arthritis.

Genital ulcers resembles the mouth ulcers, they appear on the scrotum in men and the vulva in women. Skin lesions are a common symptom in the syndrome, they include folliculitis, erythema nodosa, exanthema. Patients have acne more frequently on the legs and the thorax, and in some people injury occurs when the skin is scratched.

When a person is suspected of the Behcet's syndrome, they are submitted to take a test in which the skin is punctured with a needle. Arthritis- swollen joints, deformed legs and knees. It causes swelling and pain. Other symptoms are: - Central nervous system comprising meningitis and Encephalitis (brain inflammation) -formation of clots -affecting the gastrointestinal tract -blindness.

The central  nervous system includes brain and spinal cord function to include information processing and coordination of thinking, behavior, sensation and movement. The Behcet syndrome can cause inflammation of the brain, the spinal cord and the thin membranes that surround these organs. These conditions are translated into encephalitis and meningitis and they determine: -fever -headache -stiff neck - difficulty in coordinating movements. These symptoms should be immediately found by the doctor, because if they are left untreated can lead to a stroke (blockage or rupture of blood vessels in the brain).