Lupus

It so depends on the type of symptoms you have. Certainly, there are tips and tricks of the "trade," that can help you stay active. The hardest and best is to keep exercising--water aerobics are wonderful. A balanced diet of fresh, non processed foods, helps. I find living in a place without storm fronts is beneficial. Be careful of supplements and other popular home remedies.

Maybe you have a bacterial (ear) infection. Do the ears flake? Or feel as though they burn (like a brush burn feels)? If so use an over the counter bacteria ointment on the outside and try not to get any water in the ears

Not necessarily, but many lupus patients will gain weight due to an anti-inflammatory drug that they often take called Prednisone. This causes excessive weight gain. Sometimes lupus effects the digestive organs, resulting in digestive issues that cause weight loss. Often medications and other symptoms of lupus cause the patient to feel nauseous and vomit a lot, which is also another cause of weight loss due to lupus.

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Everything I read says YES! Coffee is bad for people w/ Lupus. But as a sufferer: I do use coffee when I feel lethargic, I may drink 2-3 cups over the course of the day and Never after 3PM. It helps me to motivate and concentrate.

Lupus statistics are hard to pin point in any country. For example, in the United States, a diagnosis of lupus is not reported to any statistic gathering agency. Statistics are based on population samples (questionnaires) and hospital discharges. The Centers for Disease Control do not track lupus. Even if lupus cases are reported to a central agency in China, that data is not published.

The ANA titer is the number of times the blood sample has to be diluted before a sample remains that has no antinuclear antibodies. The first dilution is 1:40, then 1:80, then 1:160, then 1:320. The ANA number does not correlate to the level of disease activity. Many people have a positive ANA and no disease at all. In lupus, the immunofluorscent pattern is of more significance than the titer. A speckeld pattern points to the likelihood of lupus.

Lupus rash is caused by autoimmune activity. The immune mistakes the skin for a pathogen and so attacks it causing the rash. The honey may soothe the rash, but the underlying autoimmune activity has to be addressed as well. Topical steroid creams can be helpful. The sun makes lupus rashes worse.

Lupus nephritis is one of the common (40%) complications of systemic lupus erythematosus. The other types of lupus are neonatal (affecting newborns), discoid or cutaneous (affecting the skin and hair), and drug induced (which subsides when the offending drug is withdrawn). If you have lupus nephritis, then you have lupus.

When he was a child he had a disease called Lupus.

No. 3 to 5% of patients will be negative.

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.

The Latin word familiaris means family in English.

yes, mabey those who have should panic

My research has found no links between topanax and a positive ANA.

Wiki, I am a disappointed, I am asking YOU the question, I understand that others may not have asked it, but you have nothing at all to assist me???

A number of things can cause this symptom. Diabetes, a nervous system problem or disease, or just simple poor circulation can all be causes.

Patient assistance for prescription medications, including IV chemotherapies, is given on a patient by patient basis and is based on income. To get help contact Partnership for Prescription Assistance which is a clearing house for many patient assistance programs. www.pparx.org. An additional source is needymeds. You will find the contact information for the pharmaceutical company that makes the drug on that site.

The cause of lupus is not fully understood. The develpment of lupus contains a genetice component, gene expression, and environmental triggers.

Any herb that stimulates the immune system is contraindicated, that is it should not be used, if the person has lupus. Echinacea is one to be avoided. Herbs that claim to be immune boosters should also be avoided. The treatment goal in lupus is to suppress the immune system not to stimulate it.

Elevated Immunoglobulin levels typically indicate an current infection in the body. What kind of infection is determined by the type of immunoglobulins that are elevated. Immunoglobulins are membrane bound to naive B cell. An antibody is a secreted form of immunoglobulin that is used to fight infection directly or indirectly in various ways. Elevated immunoglobulin levels could also be a result of some lymphomas, especially if one particular immunoglobulin is extremely elevated over the others due to clonal expansion of the mylomal tumor.

Cutaneous lupus which is often called discoid lupus.

I have anti jka antibody and have now been diagnosed with SLE

Lupus and rosacea are not the same thing. A dermatologist would need to do a biopsy to determine if redness and inflammation are caused by lupus or rosacea. It is possible for a lupus rash to look lmuch like rosacea.

genetic relationship between the lupus and type 1 diabetes is important because immune system have in relation with lymphatic system