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Lupus

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There are quite a few celebrities who have had lupus including: Seal, Elaine Paige, Ray Walston and Michael Jackson.
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Lupus is a disease that affects the immune system of the body. Since the immune system cannot differentiate between healthy and normal cells and germs, it results in creating autoantibodies that end up attacking the body’s normal cells. T...
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Hi. I'm sorry to read about all the tough times you've been enduring, and now your medical worries. Your drs. are no doubt also looking for internal bleeding & the like. And one sentence caught my eye especially. What do the "mys...
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Jenilee, In your shoes, I'd look for info on autoimmunes in which ANA and anti-Ro are both very high. What comes to my (completely untrained & unprofessional) mind: Ro-lupus &/or Sjogren's Syndrome (meaning I think people can have b...
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The name comes from a Latin term for "wolf." It refers to the lesions on the nose and face that the sickness sometimes causes in serious cases. Early physicians who studied the disease thought the rash gave some patients a wolf-li...
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Peter Lupus was born on June 17, 1932
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Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease, and it can affect many parts of the body, in particular the skin, joints, blood, and kidneys. Although there have been some studies showing that there may be a genetic link, it normally takes some ki...
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Lupus can affect many different organs, so there can be a wide range of symptoms and they can come and go, or change over time. The most common symptoms of lupus are extreme fatigue, headaches, swollen joints, fever, anemia, swelling in the...
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To diagnose lupus, doctors have figured out a way to track down who has lupus and who doesn't. A patient must have at least four of the eleven listed ailments. Some of these could include ulcers of the mouth, a rash that appears only on the...
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Lupus is thought to have a genetic predisposition and can be set off by stressful events in a person's life. Lupus is an autoimmune disease, and It is not contagious and cannot be caught by being around someone who is afflicted with the dis...
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