What is Lupus and is there a cure?
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Lupus takes a number of forms and has different names attached to the base name. But when my mom had it, it was just known as Lupus. It is an autoimmune disease. For my mom, it was attacking her liver and her spleen. She also had a problem at the same time (not sure if it was part of it) with her skin getting thicker and thicker as well as her bones. The skin thing I think was called Scleroderma. The only help for it was to take Prednisone (a corticosteroid) that knocked down some of the function of her immune system to help slow the progression of it. Problem with that was that it left her more susceptible to infections and she got the flu and pneumonia at the same time. It sent her to the hospital were she died just a few days later. Basically, there is no cure that I am aware of.
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Lupus is an autoimmune disease because it attacks your cells and health tissues by mistake. It may harm your joints, skin, blood vessels and certain organs. There are many types of Lupus, the most common is the systemic eritomathose that affects many parts of the body. Discoid lupus produces a skin eruption that doesn't dissapear. Sub-acute skin lupus produces ampules in the skin after sun exposure. There's another type of lupus caused by certain medications and the neonatal which is rare and affects the newborn children.
What causes lupus is still not known, but the symptoms, which may vary, are:
Pain and inflammation of the joints.
Muscular pain.
Fever of unknown origin.
Skin eruptions red and generally in the face (also called: butterfly wings).
There's no cure for the disease but there are medications that help to control it.
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