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The cause of lupus is not known. Research suggests that genes play an important role, but genes alone do not determine who gets lupus. It is likely that many factors trigger the disease.
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What microbe causes Lupus?
Lupus is not caused by a pathogen. Lupus is not contagious.
What is lupus ANTICUAGULATE?
Lupus anticoagulant is a blood clotting disorder that occurs in some lupus patients. Lupus anticoagulant causes blood clots. It is treated with blood thinners.
What is Lupus anti-coagulant?
Lupus anticoagulant is one a several blood clotting disorders that can affect lupus patients. Lupus anticoagulant causes the patient to make blood clots. It is treated with blood thinners.
Is lupus painful?
Yes. Autoimmune activity in lupus causes inflammation. Inflammation causes pain. 90-95% of lupus patients experience joint pain. Other pain may be present depending on which body systems and organs are involved.
Can lupus anticoagulant cause tiredness?
Lupus anticoagulant does not, in itself cause tiredness but having lupus does. Lupus can cause anemia which in turn causes fatigue. Lupus can cause the body to make inflammatory cytokines which cause a feeling of flu like fatigue.
What can Lupus do to a human?
Most cases of lupus are mild to moderate, but some are fatal. Lupus causes profound fatigue and joint pain. In the worst cases, lupus can cause organ failure, heart attacks and strokes.
Lupus located on the body?
Lupus can affect any and every part of the body. Most commonly, lupus causes profound fatigue and joint pain. 50% of lupus patients will have kidney involvement. Lupus frequently causes skin rashes and lesions. But lupus can attack any part of the body. Lupus does not spread in the sense of being contagious or like an infection-it is not. Lupus is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system turns against healthy parts of the self.
What is idiopathic lupus?
Idiopathic means they do not know what caused it. In that sense all lupus except drug induced or lupus caused by inhaling silica, is idiopathic because we do not know what causes it.
Can human parvovirus cause lupus?
In adults, parvovirus can cause a prolonged and painful arthritis. There's no evidence, though, that it causes lupus.
What is is lupus?
Lupus is a disease that causes the body's immune system to attack the healthy cells within the body.
Is lupus a dangerous?
While the majority of cases if lupus are mild to moderate, lupus can also be life threatening. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can affect any part of the body. If it affects organs, it can be dangerous. The most common causes of death from lupus are kidney failure, uncontrolled infection and cardiovascular events.
Does lupus causes vitiligo?
Lupus does not cause vitiligo. Both lupus and vitiligo are autoimmune diseases. People who have one autoimmune disease often have more than one. Lupus and vitiligo can occur in the same person at the same time, but there is no cause and effect relationship between the two.
