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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.
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.
What causes arthalgia?
Arthralgia is the medical term for joint pain. There are many possible causes for joint pain including arthritis, injury, fibromyalgia, and autoimmune diseases such as lupus.
Can lupus cause chest pain?
Lupus patients often develop pleurisy, or inflammation of the lining of the lungs. This causes chest pain upon deep breathing. Lupus patients may also develop inflammation in the heart which also causes chest pain. There are three types of inflammation of the heart based on which layer is affected: pericarditis, myocarditis, and endocarditis. All chest pains should be addressed by a doctor immediately.
Does lupus cause pain and hot flash?
Yes, lupus can cause pain and hot flashing.
What microbe causes Lupus?
Lupus is not caused by a pathogen. Lupus is not contagious.
What does diffuse abdominal pain mean?
'Diffuse' means "spread out," so diffuse abdominal pain is pain that encompasses the entire abdomen and is not limited to one certain part of the abdomen.
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 causes oxygen from the water to diffuse into the blood?
the lungs causes oxygen from the water to diffuse into the blood
What diseases mimic the rash of lupus?
I have lupus and several other auto immune diseases plus i am a nurse.Some diseases that have the same symptoms to lupus are rheumatoid arthritis,fybromialgia,schleroderma,mylosceniengravis.and alot of times these diseases can occur together as in my case.
What is is lupus?
Lupus is a disease that causes the body's immune system to attack the healthy cells within the body.
What is the medical term diffuse pain?
Diffuse pain is pain that's hard to point to as being in a single spot. For instance, if someone is sore from exercising the day before, she may have diffuse pain in their thighs; in contrast, if she cut her leg shaving, she might have focal pain at the site of the cut.
